Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum

What it reported doing in 2024

Education: Education is the heart of Enfield Shaker Museum's mission. Through the Museum's historic buildings and built environment, artifactual collections, archaeological collections, archives, and library, professional staff members, skilled craftspeople, scholars, and volunteers provide to a diverse and growing public a variety of programs and exhibitions with which to learn about and learn from the Shakers of Enfield, New Hampshire. Trained interpreters and staff educators provide general and topical tours and site interpretation geared to visitor-initiated questions. Visitors may also take self-guided tours of the historic site. Throughout the year visitors may learn history, Shaker trades and industries, and sustainability through doing historic crafts, foodways, and activities provided through demonstrations and hands-on workshops (oval boxes, knives, brooms, spinning, weaving, textile dyeing, gardening, timber-framing, for example). Talks, lectures, and tours explore the Shakers within their historical context and raise questions about communalism, racial and gender equality, pacifism, and tolerance today. The Museum is dedicated to supporting local primary, secondary, and higher education. Our History Alive field trip program allows New Hampshire and Vermont students to explore local history and the Enfield Shakers' legacy through history-based hands-on activities. In fiscal year 2023, over 300 students and teachers participated in this program. As part of our ongoing commitment to making these field trips as accessible as possible, the Museum provides free admission to students in the Mascoma Valley Regional School District. We award transportation grants to several local schools that otherwise would not have been able to attend the program. Each summer junior and senior high school students enroll in our field ecology school, learning the history of the Shakers' land use and the interconnection between human activity and the environment. Funds were given to provide full scholarships to local students in need, to pay an instructor's salary, and for general supplies.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
• Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
• Fundraising efficiency: $13.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 24.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.77; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings