Doleman Black Heritage Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331213124
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Hagerstown, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3017975019
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,780
- Expenses
- $258,497
- Assets
- $221,621
- Liabilities
- $5,901
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shakira Dolman (Executive Director)
- Phoebe Harris (President)
People named in this filing
- Shakira Dolman (Executive Director)
- Janice Kelsh (Secretary)
- Phoebe Harris (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to collect, preserve, interpret, and share African American history and culture, with a focus on the heritage of the Jonathan Street community and the broader Western Maryland region. Through exhibitions, educational programs, cultural events, and community engagement, the organization promotes historical understanding, cultural awareness, and public access to African American heritage.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Doleman Black Heritage Museum conducted its annual Juneteenth Celebration, a community-based cultural and educational program honoring the history of emancipation and African American heritage. The event provided free, public access to historical exhibits, guided interpretation, and presentations on the origins of Juneteenth, Reconstruction, and the legacy of the Jonathan Street community. Activities included cultural performances, youth engagement stations, storytelling, and hands-on learning experiences designed to increase understanding of African American history. The program also featured a community marketplace supporting local Black-owned businesses and artisans. DBHM's Juneteenth activities strengthened cultural awareness, promoted community engagement, and advanced the museum's mission to preserve and interpret African American history in Washington County.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $212K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.