Historic Naval Ships Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521690891
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- San Pedro, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3109714462
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,275
- Expenses
- $110,169
- Assets
- $143,285
- Liabilities
- $12,325
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Banta (President)
- Len Santiago (Vice President)
- Michael Getscher (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Steve Banta (President)
- Len Santiago (Vice President)
- John Elliker (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Public education and information sharing among historic ship museums and individual members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Individual Member Support: includes electronic and paper newsletters, encouragement of volunteer services to Fleet Member historic ship museums, providing educational opportunities through annual conference. Includes grants of $500 to 6 scholarships for junior staff to attend annual conference.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.