Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Legal name: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
036009701
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Plymouth, VT, United States
Phone
802-672-3389
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,083,397
Expenses
$3,288,529
Assets
$28,799,582
Liabilities
$184,955

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMITY SHLAES (TRUST/CHAIR&CEO)
  • MATTHEW DENHART (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMITY SHLAES (TRUST/CHAIR&CEO): $489,933 total reported compensation
  • MATTHEW DENHART (President): $312,774 total reported compensation
  • Rob Hammer (Dir, Scholarship): $157,315 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of America’s 30th president and increasing Americans’ understanding of President Coolidge and the values he promoted. Together, these initiatives cultivate a community inspired by President Coolidge. We invite you to get involved and support the Foundation’s work to advance the enduring ideals of Silent Cal. []( Donate • Newsletter. The Foundation’s **national high school speech and debate program** advances President Coolidge’s commitment to informed citizenship, freedom of thought, and civil dialogue. Through a nationwide series of tournaments, the program provides students with a platform to develop a deep understanding of economics and public policy. More than a thousand students each year debate real-world issues such as taxes, inflation, healthcare, and immigration. At the program’s...

What it reported doing in 2024

The coolidge foundation hosts programs around the country that seek to educate and to perpetuate the memory and legacy of president calvin coolidge. In addition to programs described in 4b and 4c, these programs include: the coolidge scholarship, a full undergraduate scholarship operated with the foundation's supporting organization, the calvin coolidge presidential fund; the coolidge review, an acclaimed periodical of economic and presidential history; a coolidge-themed event/lecture series; a weekly e-newsletter; an active website with educational materials including an on-line archive of coolidge primary source documents; and history education programs at the president calvin coolidge state historic site. In 2024 the foundation hosted a major national conference at the library of congress as well as public celebrations at the coolidge historic site in plymouth, Vermont.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 96
  • Accountability: 89
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.9%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 70
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.76; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 52.9% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $490K · 29 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.