Chisholm Trail Heritage Center Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141896825
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Duncan, OK, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $313,937
- Expenses
- $129,585
- Assets
- $376,572
- Liabilities
- $2,853
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEAH MULKEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BARBARA BRAUGHT (TREASURER)
- LEAH MULKEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- GARRETT NELSON (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To celebrate and perpetuate the history, art, and culture of the chisholm trail, the american cowboy, and the american west.
What it reported doing in 2024
The main purpose of the chisholm trail heritage center is to educate using the umbrella of the chisholm trail to teach not only history and social studies, but also math, science, geography, biology, entrepreneurship, music appreciation and fine arts know in educational circles as stem. Four revolving sessions use the historic backdrop of the following stories: abernathy boys, holiday on the trail, history heroes and Oklahoma land giveaways. A summer session is also taught. In this capacity, the chisholm trail heritage center hosted over 10,000 students from 91 different districts in Oklahoma and Texas as well as numerous homeschool, private, charter and virtual students. While the core group of students is in grades 2-5, the chisholm trail heritage center works with students as young as age 2 to senior citizens. The center also hosts various learning opportunities as one-time classes or workshops. The center hosts a national day of the cowboy celebration in conjunction with our educational programming each summer. We now offer virtual education sessions for grades k-12th
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.6%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58.7%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.91; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.6% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.