National Atomic Museum Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850404628
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5052452137
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,821,106
- Expenses
- $2,582,215
- Assets
- $7,781,968
- Liabilities
- $185,582
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER HAYDEN (PRESIDENT AN)
People named in this filing
- AMANDA ARMENTA (BOARD MEMBER)
- DENNIS BENCE (BOARD MEMBER)
- DR SANDRA BIEDRON (BOARD MEMBER)
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 national atomic museum foundation (the foundation) was formed in 1992 to provide the cultural, educational, and scientific programs of the national museum of nuclear science & history (the museum). The museum is the nation's only congressionally-chartered museum of nuclear science & history. The foundation owns and operates the museum, compensates staff, develops broad public, private, and volunteer support for the museum, and provides financial support for the museum's programs, exhibits, and collections. Foundation membership is open to any person or organization that meets eligibility criteria established by the board of trustees. The main sources of support and revenue of the foundation are governmental contracts with snl, contributions from various individuals, foundations, and business enterprises, sales from the museum store, museum admissions, program services revenue, memberships, and event revenues.
What it reported doing in 2024
National museum of nuclear science & history is the nation's only congressionally chartered museum of nuclear science and history. It includes operation of the museum gift store which sells items that feature the history of atomic energy and nuclear physics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th 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: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $106K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- 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 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.