Hyperion Historical Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472525122
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Orcutt, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3057991813
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,985
- Expenses
- $56,294
- Assets
- $203,819
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Didier Ghez (President & CEO)
- Tim O'Day (Vice President)
- Mindy Johnson (Vice President)
- Todd J Pierce (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Didier Ghez (President & CEO)
- Jim Hollifield (Director)
- Tim O'Day (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
The HHA purpose (Mission Statement):(1) to preserve documents, oral histories, artwork and other relevant items pertaining to the history of Walt Disney and the men and women who worked and/or work at The Walt Disney Company (including The Walt Disney Studios, WED/Walt Disney Imagineering, Disneyland, and related companies/divisions),(2) to engender and deepen research relationships between scholars, historians, archivists and other professionals who explore the history of animation, themed space and outdoor amusements, the historical figure of Walt Disney, and the overall work accomplished at The Walt Disney Company and associated global enterprises, and(3) to participate in the production and the general dissemination of historically-accurate portrayals of Walt Disney, The Walt Disney Studios, WED/WDI, Disneyland and other divisions and entities that comprise The Walt Disney Company.The corporation will carry on other activities associated with these goals as allowed by law. The Hype
What it reported doing in 2024
A significant number of digitization projects helped preserve archival type materials, including digitally transferring and restored audio cassette taped interviews recorded in the 1970s-1990s with key Disney artists and studio personnel as part of an oral history conducted by authors Michael Barrier and Paul Anderson. Editorial work was performed on the writing and/or layout for several of the organizations publications in progress, including 1) a monograph about the origins of Walt Disneys True-Life Adventure nature series, 2) a monograph about Disneys 1941 goodwill trip to South America on behalf of the U.S. government, 3) a monograph about early Mickey Mouse stage and radio shows, 4) a monograph about the history of Walt Disney Imagineering and the early work to design and build Disneyland, 5) monographs about the making of Disneys Swiss Family Robinson and Darby OGill and the Little People films, and 6) The 2022-23 HHA Annual featuring scholarly articles by numerous contributors, including authors from Loyola Marymount University and the Smithsonian Institute.
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
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.62; rating input score 78; 78th 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: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 73.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.