Doctor Pickens Museum Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831361332
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Ponca City, OK, USA
Phone
5804910523
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$143,541
Expenses
$0
Assets
$2,519,279
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Hugh Pickens (Executive Director)
  • Caveh Masum (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Hugh Pickens (Executive Director)
  • Caveh Masum (Vice President)
  • Amber Barger (Secretary Treasurer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Pickens Museum is chartered as an educational institution whose collection of modern and contemporary art reflects the vitality complexity and unfolding patterns of art and presents exhibitions to national and international audiences. In pursuit of this goal the Museum has collected over 1,000 works of painting sculpture drawing photography and native American jewelry. Pickens Museum includes Native American Turquoise Jewelry by Tanya Rafael Jolene Bird and others; African American art by Malvin Gray Johnson Faith Ringgold Woodrow Nash; Native American art by Allan Houser Josue Sanchez Yatika Starr Fields Ed Natiya Oreland Joe Clyde Otipoby CJ Wells; Oklahoma art by John Free Becky Manschreck Roger Disney Traci Bird; Bronze Sculpture by Donald De Lue Paul Manship Albert Wein Jo Davidson Bryant Baker Malvina Hoffman Paul Manship; Verdite Sculpture from Zimbabwe by James Tandi

What it reported doing in 2025

Pickens Museum continued maintaining and expanding Museum exhibits at our four locations: 1 the Pickens Learning Commons at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa Oklahoma 2 City Central in Ponca City Oklahoma 3 The Osage Warrior Outdoor Sculpture Garden at 2301 Copper Creek in Ponca City Oklahoma and 4 Pickens gallery co-located at Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville Oklahoma

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 63
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 70%; rating input score 70; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -32.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.