Museum of Idaho
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820363177
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,584,691
- Expenses
- $2,622,751
- Assets
- $9,879,813
- Liabilities
- $360,898
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- JACQUELINE BLAIR (TRUSTEE)
- ANDREW BOCZAR (TRUSTEE)
- JOSEPH GIEBEL (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The museum of Idaho seeks to inspire wonder and discovery about Idaho and our world through science and the humanities. Moi is fully dependent on donations, grants ticket sales, and store revenue to fund this mission, key to which is ensuring its education offerings are as accessible as possible to understand populations in east Idaho and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
The museum offers a steady stream of high quality educational programs led by dynamic and experienced educators, and including date nights, walking tours, lectures and hands on activities, to thousands of people per year. The vast majority of moi programming is offered at no or low cost to participants. Monthly programs little learners and discovery day, as well as annual events such as stem day at the museum are offered at no cost. Scholarships allow dozens of students from underserved populations to attend summer day camps and nights at the musuem, a semi-annual sleepover event for grades 3-6, for only 5-10 per student. For adults, the twice monthly museum club lecture series is offered at 5 each for public and at no cost for moi members. The museum also offers-sharp discounts to its educator summer camps for teachers who work in title i schools. Moi offers special spanish language days with discounted admission and is currently translatingits exhibit material into spanish and working with local spanish language groups to determine the preferred method of delivery. The museum of Idaho works with local families and agences and has designed numerous programs tailored to learners with differing physical, intellectual and sensory needs. The museum also organizes public tours and conservation of a nearby archaeological site and is developing a cultural travel program.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.77; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.