Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
346555993
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2164311060
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
History Museums

Reported finances

Revenue
$809,715
Expenses
$287,735
Assets
$4,536,873
Liabilities
$2,105

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT KLANN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAUREN HANSGEN (EXECUTIVE DI): $80,149 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. We aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to its roots by serving as a place for urban history, education, nature, and community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Once a stagecoach stop on the buffalo-cleveland-detroit post road, the 1824 home of rufus and jane pratt dunham is the oldest building still standing on its original site in the city of cleveland. In stark contrast to the cityscape that surrounds it, dunham tavern museum & gardens offers a glimpse of history and insight into the lifestyles of early Ohio settlers and travelers. Amazingly, the structure has persisted as a witness to nearly 200 years of history and change on euclid avenue. Stagecoach stops to car dealerships, millionaire's row to urban renewal . . . Dunham has remained. Dunham tavern museum & gardens-an inclusive place that inspires and enriches lives through history, nature, and community. History never rests but is retold by each generation. The dunham tavern has witnessed cleveland's history and amazingly survived for almost two centuries. As we enter our third century, dunham tavern museum & gardens is a place where one may explore and celebrate our community's growth and development. While we honor the dunhams of "pioneer" days, we also celebrate each successive generation right up to today that made new lives in cleveland. We strive to foster a renewed appreciation of nature and our landscape - experienced at our outdoor events or simply by a casual stroll and reflection on the heritage trail. Dunham tavern museum & gardens is a community anchor that preserves history while creating a vital gathering space that continues to inspire and celebrate a changing museum for a resilient neighborhood. Just as dunham's history reflects preservation and adaptation within changing neighborhood contexts, today is an important moment to consider the future of dunham tavern museum & gardens. A once-in-a-generation opportunity exists to preserve dunham's history while imagining a visionary future that sustains and elevates us as a significant neighborhood asset and a regional cultural destination. Dunham is at the heart of the newly defined midtown civic district. With increased planning and investment along e. 66th street and the euclid healthtech corridor, the dunham campus can become an inspiring, welcoming 21st century public space that ensures dunham tavern museum & gardens remains a vital midtown institution.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 31.3%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $163.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 64.5%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.77; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 31.3% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $240K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 18 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $503K reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.