North Star Scouting Memorabilia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411401619
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- North St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6517482880
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,797
- Expenses
- $254,085
- Assets
- $947,194
- Liabilities
- $3,322
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- TERRI ANDERSON (SECRETARY)
- KIM ANDREAS (BOARD MEMBER)
- SANDRA CRAIGHEAD (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of north star scouting memorabilia, inc., dba north star museum of boy scouting and girl scouting is to "collect, preserve, share, and interpret the history and significance of boy scouting and girl scouting in the upper midwest." it collects material relating to boy scouting and girl scouting, exhibits these materials, holds public events at which these collections take center stage, and work with youth and adults to learn the history of scouting in this region.
What it reported doing in 2025
The bulk of our work falls under the category of collections care and preservation, from dealing with incoming collections, to caring for, cataloging, and properly storing those objects that we choose to accept, to making the collections available through exhibition, research, and publication. We devote a fair amount of time and expense to collections care particularly. Over the years, we have moved the backlog of collections processing, and finally got to the point where we are able to accession and catalog an item as soon as the board accepts it for the collection. Under the heading of educational programming, the museum either hosts or goes out to more than 10 community/educational events, including merit badge workshops for boy scouts, tours and programs for girl scouts and boy scouts public events, classes, training, meetings, and traveling displays. A great deal of staff and volunteer time went into all of these events, and thousands of people were served, both on-site and elsewhere.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -85.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.73; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.