Canterbury Shaker Village Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237035275
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Canterbury, NH, USA
Phone
6037839077
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,996,097
Expenses
$1,649,876
Assets
$9,003,465
Liabilities
$20,533

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ERIN HAMMERSTEDT (EXECUTIVE DI): $73,619 total reported compensation
  • JOHN OLD (TRUSTEE): $1 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 mission of canterbury shaker village is to preserve and interpret the legacy of the shakers, providing a place for learning, reflection, and renewal of the human spirit. Canterbury shaker village, inc., an internationally recognized nonprofit museum, is a national historic landmark and museum with 25 preserved original shaker buildings, 4 reconstructed shaker buildings, and 694 acres of forests, fields, gardens, nature trails, and mill ponds under permanent conservation easement. The village's board, staff, volunteers, and supporters are dedicated to the preservation of the site and to interpreting the shakers' legacy through a robust calendar of exhibitions, programs, tours, and events.

What it reported doing in 2024

Collections - canterbury shaker village, inc. Preserves the historic shakers' church family site, an exemplary preserved built environment. In 1993, the village received national historic landmark status for its national significance, architectural integrity, and historical authenticity. The village's nationally significant collections constitute one of the largest and most comprehensive body of shaker-made and shaker- used material culture and records remaining in an original shaker community. Nearly 90% of the village's 100,000+ objects, texts, and images have never left the site. These material culture and archival collections, representing 200 years of the canterbury shakers' communal life, are preserved on the site at which this evidence was produced and used. The collections' pre-eminent historic and cultural significance derives from these material and spatial associations, as well as serving as and representing links with other shaker communities. The village's collections are of local, state, regional, and national importance, informing such areas as american history, art, architecture, religion, technology, agriculture, domestic life, domestic industries, women's studies, and communitarian and utopian studies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 31
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 88
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.7%; rating input score 14
  • Program expense ratio: 55.2%; rating input score 55
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 76.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.46; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.7% of revenue deployed · 55.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $911K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.