Five Mile House Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371383106
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Charleston, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2173488603
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,230
- Expenses
- $21,834
- Assets
- $474,766
- Liabilities
- $550
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Vance (President, acting Treasurer)
- Clark Blitz (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Thomas Vance (President, acting Treasurer)
- Clark Blitz (Vice President)
- Richard Hummel (Secretary)
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
Preservation, restoration, and interpretation of the historic Five Mile House and the 1880 C.P. Davis barn. Presenting historical programs, tours, and events to visiting school classes and the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Interpretive and educational programs including a hands-on living history experience for all Charlston IL fourth grade classes; a series of Sunday afternoon living history summer programs that includes a historical presentation, period music, and craft demonstrations such as spinning and blacksmithing; and the Fall Festival event that includes hands-on crafts, demonstrations, period music, and an array of historic activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 15
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.9%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 30%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.8%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.74; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -44.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.9% of revenue deployed · 30% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.