General Patton Memorial Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330123234
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chiriaco Summit, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7605074143
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $264,952
- Expenses
- $289,672
- Assets
- $1,254,047
- Liabilities
- $566
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGIT RUSCHE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LESLIE CONE (SECRETARY)
- MATT DIEHL (VICE PRESIDE)
- JOHN EMERSON (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
The mission of the general patton memorial museum is to promote peace by honoring the service and sacrifice of americas veterans while educating the public on modern u.s. Military history through the preservation and interpretation of artifacts from the major conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Preserving the peace through lessons of the past
What it reported doing in 2025
The general patton memorial is a museum built to sustain the memory and protect the image of general george s. Patton, a national hero. The museum preserves the historic value of his contributions and the wars in which our country was engaged in. The museum also serves as an enduring reminder of those who fought and died for our country and served in the u.s. Military.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $263K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.