New Americans Museum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912144518
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6197567707
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,621
- Expenses
- $60,688
- Assets
- $1,681
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda Sotelo (Acting Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Linda Sotelo (Acting Executive Director)
- Rosa Buettner (Co-Chair)
- Carlos Wellman (Co-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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A catalyst for celebration of America's past and promise, the museum provides inspiring educational and cultural programs to honor our diverse immigrant experiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nam launched the 2025 program year continuing the [attendance record breaking] exhibition: beyond the elements curated by mario lopez, which ran through mid summer and closed with a series of educational workshops on music production, career pathways, immigrant representation, and creative sector careers exploration. Next, the museum installed and opened the 'nam immigrant voices from the archives', a photographic educational exhibit with over 60 life size panels of the san diego region's notable community leaders and figures from diverse backgronds and sectors and hailing from over 25 countries and multi generational backgrounds along with digital and video testimonies accesible through qr codes. A second complementary exhibit featured the regions refugee and multi year immigrant data and graphics outlining the economic, cultural, academic and scientific contributions of immigrant populations throughout the region and the us. The data was in partnership with the san diego union tribune and other data sources [including, us census, sandag, pew]. This was widely attended and the museum provided teaching tools and interactive materials for teacher-led student experiences avaiable in various languages. Nam concluded its educational and artististic programming with a pop up exibition of irish americans in san diego hilighting the potato famine historical context and background as a detonator of immigration hilighting those of irish american descent who helped build the sd region. This was in partnership with the irish outreach center of san diego with support from the government of ireland emigrant support programme managed by the irish abroad unit. This resulted in many vistors and unique programming including musical cieli's/gatherings and the collection of additional irish american testimonirs for the nam oral histories narrative program. Nam closed the year with several of the learning collaborative activities with community partner organizations including casa cornelia workshops, college alternative spring break and end of year student museum takeover experiences; film presentaitons including 'letters from baghdad' a film documentary opening hilgihting san diegos chaldean/iraqui refugee communties; women in philanthropy educational events, and other community partner meetings focused on delivering workshops on storytelling, history, democracy, cultural experiences, film skills and leadership development. In addition, the museum held various community feedback meetings to evaluate and conclude the 2025 year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -110.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization has conflicting California charity-registration records.