Littleton Area Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 026046430
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Littleton, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6034446435
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,664
- Expenses
- $19,197
- Assets
- $393,061
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dick Searles (President)
- Curtis Metzger (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dick Searles (President)
- Roger Merrill (Treasurer)
- Barbara Radmore (Secretary)
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
Operate and maintain a museum and inventory of donated artifacts and memorabilia to preserve/present Littleton and area history.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operate and maintain a museum and inventory of donated artifacts and memorabilia to preserve/present. Littleton and area history. 2025 number of visitors was over 506 from 32 states and 15 countries. There are 151 members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.1%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 67.3%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.48; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.