National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208964286
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Peterboro, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154710465
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Commemorative Events
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,225
- Expenses
- $22,981
- Assets
- $178,771
- Liabilities
- $62,546
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALDEN MAX SMITH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TRUMAN HARTSHORN (DIRECTOR)
- MARYANN M WINTERS (TREASURER)
- DOROTHY H WILLSEY (DIRECTOR)
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
Musueum and related programs to honor antislavery abolitionists and their work to end slavery and the legacy of that struggle.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operation of abolition hall of fame musuem and weekend program foucused on 19th century abolitionists who are honored.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.8%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.78; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -28.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.8% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.