Gretna Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720795358
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Gretna, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5048109402
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,156
- Expenses
- $218,404
- Assets
- $478,387
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa LaFrance (President)
- Ray Markase (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Judy LeBlanc (Director of Facilities): $30,120 total reported compensation
- Janet Parker (Caretaker Assistant): $8,014 total reported compensation
- Sarah Daigle (Treasurer): $6,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operate historic museum for the public. Conduct events that are of historic significance for public edification. Carry on programs of historic education. Involvement in and support of local community preservation works.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operate and maintain museum complex. The museum complex consists of four historic homes a former volunteer fire station that is now a designated fire museum a former train depot and retired caboose. The complex also includes many historic artifacts on display throughout the facilities. The museum complex is open four days a week for viewing by the public. Tours for special groups may also be arranged. The complex also includes an operating blacksmith shop. Certain of these facilities have been designated as historic structures. The facility is also available for special event rental i.e weddings showers repasts etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $218K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.