First Americans Museum Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731554119
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4055942112
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,417,903
- Expenses
- $8,496,064
- Assets
- $25,733,122
- Liabilities
- $1,214,972
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR KELLI MOSTELLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHOSHANNA WASSERMAN (ASST. SECRETARY/DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $154,442 total reported compensation
- DR KELLI MOSTELLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $100,980 total reported compensation
- PAMELA CARO (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $40,263 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 serve as a dynamic center promoting awareness and educating the broader public about the unique cultures, diversity, history, contributions, and resilience of the first american nations in Oklahoma today.
What it reported doing in 2024
Winiko reunions - "winiko: life of an object" exhibit, located in the mezzanine gallery of the south wing of first americans museum, brings more than 100 cultural objects from Oklahoma's 39 tribes back to the state for the first time in over a century. Drawing from the collections of the smithsonian's national museum of the american indian, the exhibition highlights the deep cultural significance of native objects and the stories they carry across generations. Curated by an all-native team in collaboration with tribal representatives and knowledge keepers, winiko invites visitors to experience these materials through indigenous perspectives while exploring the evolving relationship between native communities and museums. The exhibit also celebrates the homecoming of these historic objects through reunions with descendants of their original makers and owners.
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 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.2%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.9%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.2% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $154K · 10 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.