Irvington Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133570708
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Irvington, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9145911020
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,916
- Expenses
- $72,687
- Assets
- $335,586
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Veronica Gedrich (Past President)
- Scott Mosenthal (President)
- Patricia Ryan (Past President)
- Kevin Weber (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ruth Cowan (Trustee)
- Earl Ferguson (Trustee)
- Veronica Gedrich (Past 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the society is the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the village of Irvington and its environs, in the County of Westchester, State of New York.
What it reported doing in 2025
Presented a series of talks, both live and on zoom, on topics of local interest including the history of the Hudson Valley brick industry, the role of women in business when New York was ruled by the Dutch, the forgotten history of slavery in the Hudson Valley, the history of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the crucial role of local newspapers, such as the Irvington Gazette, in sustaining our democracy and the story of Squanto, an enslaved person. 449 persons benefited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 54.3%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.62; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 54.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.