Historical Preservation Foundation of The Native Sons of The Golden West

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943357423
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Auburn, CA, USA
Phone
5308282039
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$81,266
Expenses
$37,447
Assets
$402,567

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Jedidiah Watson (Secretary)
  • Larry Schork (Director)
  • Gary Padgett (Director)

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 organization devotes its time to making California history accessible, informative, meaningful, and entertaining to the public through the preservation, sponsorship, and promotion of historical sites and events.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided funding for the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of California historical and cultural sites and buildings, including the Native Sons of The Golden West Parlor's roof in Humboldt, the historic Chinese Cemetery in Auburn, an Eagle Scout's project for the St John Church in Sonora, a window restoration at the Ramona Museum of California, restoring the floor of the Monterey Customs House, the Vacaville Historical digital archive, and maintenance on an historic church in a historic Gold Rush era Sierra Foothills town.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 41%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89

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: 53.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.75; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 41% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.