Maine Forestry Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010363861
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Rangeley, ME, USA
Phone
2078643939
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$144,551
Expenses
$49,918
Assets
$461,664

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KEVIN CYR (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • HEIDI FERGUSON (DOCENT)
  • KEVIN CYR (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
  • DONALD CHASE (TREASURER & DIRECTOR)

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

Preserve the cultural heritage of forestry and conservation in the state of Maine and to educate visitors on the contributions of logging and the logging industry to the growth of Maine.

What it reported doing in 2025

We are a seasonal museum open four month per year. We provide a variety of exhibits pertaining to the history of logging and forest conservation in the State of Maine. We have 650-700 visitors plus school groups and bus tours annually.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

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

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.4%; rating input score 42
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 65.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.25; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 42.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 42/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.