National Road Heritage Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043831452
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boonsboro, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3017303880
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,723
- Expenses
- $47,515
- Assets
- $308,174
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HEIDI SCHLAG (Vice President)
- RICHARD S KEESECKER (President)
People named in this filing
- HEIDI SCHLAG (Vice President)
- RICHARD S KEESECKER (President)
- CINDY KAUFFMAN (Treasurer)
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
To develop and open a national raod museum in boonsboro, Washington county, Maryland. The national road museum opened to the public on december 14, 2024. The museum will educate the local public, state and out of state tourists about the history of the national road from balitmore to st. Louis, its link to the civil war and how the national road united the nation. The last standing trolley station and its connection to the lcoal area stands besides the national road museum.
What it reported doing in 2025
See organization's mission statement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -71.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.49; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.