Hicksville Gregory Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112124537
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hicksville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5168227505
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural History, Natural Science Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,039
- Expenses
- $62,173
- Assets
- $673,988
- Liabilities
- $8,862
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harry Single (Vice President)
- Richard Althaus (President)
People named in this filing
- Scott R Scheider (Treasurer)
- Harry Single (Vice President)
- Richard Althaus (President)
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
The Hicksville Gregory Museum is a teaching display museum. At least half of the museums visitiors represent school classes participating in programs related to Earth Science, Natural History or Long Island History. Programs are design to correlate with school curriculums.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides tours in earth sciences, lepidoptery and local history for approximately 6000 general visitors and 3750 students in school, camps, day care groups and lectures for local mineral club. In addition, there are outreach and special programs for schools and nature centers, library presentations GEM and mineral shows display for science fairs, educational newsletters issued quarterly, approximately 1500 copies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.84; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 18 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.