Historical Society of Plainfield
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221815431
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Plainfield, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9087555831
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,307
- Expenses
- $34,520
- Assets
- $318,870
- Liabilities
- $125,443
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Piwowar (President)
- Gabrielle Lugbauer (1st Vice President)
- Gail Scott-Bey (2nd Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Nancy Piwowar (President)
- Gabrielle Lugbauer (1st Vice President)
- Gail Scott-Bey (2nd Vice 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Historical Preservation
What it reported doing in 2024
Maintained Drake House, a prerevolutionary war structureand conducted tours to foster the public interest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.6%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
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: 77.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.24; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.6% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.