Manchester Historic Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020223390
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Manchester, NH, US
- Phone
- 603-622-7531 x 302
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $869,167
- Expenses
- $792,779
- Assets
- $7,337,486
- Liabilities
- $145,761
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SELMA NACCACH-HOFF (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY BARRACLOUGH (EXECUTIVE DI): $85,243 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To collect, preserve and share the history of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
What it reported doing in 2024
Programs and outreach - the manchester historic association operates the millyard museum and the research center, which are open to the public. The millyard museum displays educational exhibits about the history of manchester spanning pre-history (paleo-indians and native americans) to the present time, with a major focus on the industrial era. The museum includes permanent and changing exhibits. The museum also functions as an educational facility for the association's public and school programs, and for community and business events. The association provides educational programs including lectures on historical topics; walking tours of city neighborhoods; school programs (for kindergarten through college, boy & girls scout troops, home schoolers, and adult english language learners); workshops for teachers and researchers, and concerts of historical music. The association provides lectures and other types of outreach to outside groups. It also publishes articles about manchester history, and provides historical information and images through its websites, including access to its photographic and art collection archives. The research center serves students, scholars and the general public by providing direct access to the organization's collections, and also by providing information, photographs and data for researchers throughout the country. The organization also presents small historical displays in the research center, and occasional public programs. The total number of people served each calendar year through the association's programs is approximately 11,000 (visitorship, participation in programs and research requests), plus several thousand more through print publications and online media.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.26; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $547K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 26 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.