Hellertown Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232219424
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Hellertown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108381770
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,279
- Expenses
- $97,950
- Assets
- $226,234
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD MILLS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DONALD MILLS (PRESIDENT)
- DENNIS SCHOLL (VICE PRESIDE)
- GREGORY STAUFFER (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
The mission of the hellertown historical society organization, is to preserve the heller-wagner grist mill, pony bridge, the grist miller's house, wash house and related historical buildings and to preserve hellertown's heritage through collection, preservation and exhibition of selected mill-related and hellertown related documents, artifacts and photographs for viewing by the public and to provide educational opportunities about hellertown's heritage.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.31; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.