Jamison Museum Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391363989
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Platteville, WI, USA
Phone
6083483301
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$138,832
Expenses
$98,442
Assets
$908,797
Liabilities
$4,903

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEB JENNY (PRESIDENT)
  • HAP DAUS (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DEB JENNY (PRESIDENT)
  • HAP DAUS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DUANE DEYOUNG (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the mining & rollo jamison museums is to continue in the pursuit of excellence in the areas of regional and mining history. To achieve that purpose, the museums are commissioned to be a custodian of the past; to interpret the rich lead and zinc mining heritage of the region; as well as to preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts that define southwest Wisconsin.

What it reported doing in 2025

Includes providing financial support for the mining & rollo jamison museums through a donation to the city of platteville museum department to fund general operations, supporting educational events and programs of the mining & rollo jamison museums, school field trip scholarships, and support for educational exhibits and programming.during 2025 educational events and programs included, the platteville historic re-enactment (2,800 attendees), heritage day/july 4th (715 attendees), winter lyceum (127 attendees), mine day (174 attendees), the annual program (30 attendees), and school field trip scholarships to cover busing for schools and admission for 1,579 students.during 2025 support for educational exhibit and programming included: repair and maintenance of mine train, financial assistance to schools for field trips, development of new interactive museum event mini-golf, signage for the kopp memorial garden, bands for mine day, and historic educational interpreters.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 94%; rating input score 94; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.23; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.