Greater Portland Landmarks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010276272
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077745561
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $385,420
- Expenses
- $561,959
- Assets
- $1,660,030
- Liabilities
- $103,851
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE ROULLARD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRUCE ROULLARD (PRESIDENT)
- LINDA WHITTEN (VICE PRESIDE)
- CHLOE MARTIN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Greater portland landmarks uses portland's heritage - its buildings, places, culture, and stories - as a catalyst for connection, affordability, and resilience. We engage the community to learn from its history, preserve special places, and encourage development that serves and inspires those who live, work, and visit portland today and in the future.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy and education - greater portland landmarks seeks to build awareness, instill community pride, and foster public participation in historic preservation. Through community and civic engagement, educational programs, and communications we advocate for policies and plans that preserve significant historic character, encourage high-quality design, reuse and reimagine historic places sustainably, and enhance a livable city. We conduct research and surveys and educate our community about the history, culture, and architecture of our buildings and neighborhoods by telling complete and diverse stories. Landmarks' education programs engage adults and children with architecture, preservation, and history through tours, interactive maps, illustrated presentations, publications, special programs, and interpretation of the portland observatory (1807).
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 total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 38%; rating input score 38
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 38% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $213K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.