Greater Astoria Historical Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
112990504
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Long Island City, NY, USA
Phone
7182780700
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Humanities Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,674
Expenses
$33,172
Assets
$5,816
Liabilities
$39,010

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kevin McCullough (President)
  • Ava Vitalli (Vice President)
  • Robert Singleton (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kevin McCullough (President)
  • Ava Vitalli (Vice President)
  • Kevin Walsh (Board Member)

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 Society, along with our associate, Forgotten NY have earned the respect of Queens Borough (and beyond!) for our tireless output of programs, news features (we have 4 boro wide with a readership well into the 6 figures), tours (we have covered most Queens communities, book publishing, school programs)

What it reported doing in 2025

The Society has on record one of the most comprehensive image databases of New York City (yes, including seldom seen images of Queens) through the generosity the late William Steinway and Bob Stonehill (known as the "Post Card Man." A donation was granted to us last month of a major fashion photographer - 70 cartons of slides recording New York in the past 60 years. This year we have developed a series of outstanding programs around the Revolutoinary War in Queens (including the Blackwell Door). We REMAIN A source of images for authors, institutions, and the film industry (we helped Baz Lurhman with Great Gatzby - he got an Acedemy Award on Set Design us a special mention.)

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.71; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.