Manchester Area Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382156002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Manchester, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2487659324
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,615
- Expenses
- $27,709
- Assets
- $309,885
- Liabilities
- $17,882
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAYMOND BERG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RAYMOND BERG (PRESIDENT)
- BARRY ALLEN (VICE PRESIDE)
- KATHLEEN GRADDY (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
To promote and preserve the history of manchester Michigan and its surroundings, through the establishment of and operations of a museum and public meeting rooms, and through history related programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Preserve, rehabilitate and repurpose a historic home in the village of manchester into a museum, public meeting space and headquarters for manchester area historical society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.5%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.18; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.5% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.