New Coso Heritage Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953521630
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Lone Pine, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104131770
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,465
- Expenses
- $4,276
- Assets
- $10,859
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN FREW (President)
- MARLENE CIERNIAK (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- KEVIN FREW (President)
- MARLENE CIERNIAK (Vice President)
- CURT KLEBAUM (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 collect, preserve, classify and to use in the public intrerest historical data, chronicles, records, objects and momentos relating to the history of the town of lone pine, inyo county and areas adjacent to or relate in any way to the town of lone pine. To carry on and encourage education, literary, dramatic and recreational activities of any and all kinds relating to any of the foregoing. To develope and foster a wide public interest in the foregoing and generally in the conditions, persons and events which constitutes the history of lone pine and the surrounding area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.8%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 71; 71st 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: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.