Monuments Men and Women Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260272887
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2142191222
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$713,559
Expenses
$491,910
Assets
$295,775
Liabilities
$242,596

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ANNA BOTTINELLI (PRES AND BD MEM): $66,637 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation honors the legacy of the men and women who served in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section, known as the Monuments Men", and their unprecedented and heroic work protecting and safeguarding civilizations most important artistic and cultural treasures from armed conflict during World War II by: I.Raising public awareness.II.Honoring all the heroes by completing biographies and obtaining photographs of all 350 or so men and women from thirteen nations and making that information public. The Foundation will also encourage those cultural and educational institutions impacted by the Monuments Men and women to honor their wartime service and professional legacy through some form of permanent on-site recognition. The Foundation is in a race against time working with members of the House of Representatives to honor the Monuments Men and women with the Congressional Gold Medal.III.The Foundation will use heightened visibility about the Monuments Men

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024: the foundation pursued the recovery of stolen and missing objects taken by the nazis or allied soldiers during and in the years immediately following world war ii, and their restitution to rightful owners. Established a toll-free tip line, 866-wwii-art, to receive information about cultural objects lost or stolen during wwii. The foundation continues to research over 100 leads that have been received. Continued work on building a biographical database of all monuments men and women and first hand participants, which is openly accessible on our website for use by educators, students, and researchers. The foundation has also created an electronic in-house database, where this information can now be easily searched and retrieved, which has greatly increased the number of public inquiries from students, teachers and scholars, to which our researchers are able to respond. The foundation has a lead role in the design of the national world war ii museum's permanent exhibit dedicated to the monuments men, and continued to gather key artifacts from veterans and their families to be part of the display.raised worldwide awareness of mission and the monuments men through work on the feature film "the monuments men and website content now accessible to a growing international audience. The website is now available in italian, german, and french languages, in addition to english.through the foundation's efforts to provide information, and to educate members of congress about the work of the monuments men, a bipartisan bill was passed to award them the congressional gold medal. The bill was signed by the president on june 9, 2014. The monuments men and women foundation was asked by the u.s. Mint to participate in the design of the unique gold medal that will ultimately be awarded to the living monuments men and women during a formal congressional presentation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 65
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12.6%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 16
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12.6% of revenue deployed · 16.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.