Milford Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 516018039
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Milford, DE, USA
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,315
- Expenses
- $108,764
- Assets
- $338,433
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RALPH PRETTYMAN (PRESIDENT PR)
People named in this filing
- RALPH PRETTYMAN (PRESIDENT PR)
- F BROOKE CLENDANIEL (TREASURER)
- SUSAN EMORY (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
The milford historical society was founded in 1961 to accept the gift of the parson thorne mansion from mr. James richard draper. The mission of the society is to restore and maintain the mansion as a museum opened to the public, to encourage the preservation of historic buildings in milford and to collect and publich the history of milford.
What it reported doing in 2025
The milford historical society was founded in 1961 to accept the gift of the parson thorne mansion from mr. James richard draper. The mission of the society is to restore and maintain the mansion as a musuem opened to the public, to encourage the preservation of historic buildings in milford and to collect and publish the history of milford.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 32.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.