New York Preservation Archive Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311647704
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2129888379
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,265
Expenses
$249,402
Assets
$185,032
Liabilities
$30,977

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LISA ACKERMAN (CHAIR)
  • ANTHONY C WOOD (CHAIR EMERITUS)
  • ELIZABETH R JEFFE (VICE-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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The New York preservation archive project is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and celebrating the history of historic preservation in New York city.

What it reported doing in 2024

Recognizing the instructive and inspirational importance of this history to the continued health, success and growth of preservation in our city, the archive project hopes to bring these stories to light through hosting public programs, conducting oral histories, saving preservation-related papers, and providing public access to information. The archive project is devoted to celebrating neglected narratives of New York historic preservation using the archives that hold these stories.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -47.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $236K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.