Half-shire Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222142376
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Richland, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3152982986
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,678
- Expenses
- $68,180
- Assets
- $312,910
- Liabilities
- $6,426
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shawn P Doyle (President)
- Fay Ann Colvin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Shawn P Doyle (President)
- Fay Ann Colvin (Vice President)
- Betty Warren (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Half-Shire's mission is to "Preserve, protect and promote the history, genealogy and cultural heritage of the eleven towns of northern Oswego County along with the Lewis County Towns of Osceola and Montague and the Oneida County Towns of Camden and Florence."
What it reported doing in 2025
'Restoration & Collection of Historical Material' includes the building (a 1926 4 class room brick schoolhouse located in the Hamlet of Richland NY) as well as countless significant artifacts (paintings, furniture, antique Bibles and other books, 5 pianos (1 at the Oswego County Fairgrounds), 2 organs and a vast collection of photography spanning 180 years). In 2024 we continued following the 2015 Condition Assessment Report's recommendations for capital improvements of the building and improving the exterior and surrounding 2.5 acre grounds. Following our mission to maintain and improve the condition of our artifact collection we completed the restoration of over 28 family Bibles, rebound 7 county histories and atlases and tuned the 5 pianos. We continued to improve the former classrooms, which are used for exhibits, by constructing 10 new hardwood book cases, added a porch on the back of our schoolhouse (360 sq ft) and expanded the two story barn (used for exhibits and storage) by 144 sq feet. We were gifted a 1907 16 x 40 Railroad station that was moved to our town from Camden in 1965. We are raising money to move it to our campus to house our Railroad history collection. An additional building lot was donated, and the sale of this will help with the move.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.9%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.59; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.