Olaf Wieghorst Museum Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330799944
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6195903431
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,113
- Expenses
- $58,872
- Assets
- $1,284,408
- Liabilities
- $105
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jim Daniels (President)
- Michael Bostwick (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jim Daniels (President)
- Michael Bostwick (Vice President)
- John Stauffer (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the olaf wieghorst museum is to preserve and celebrate the heritage of the american west by showcasing the life and art of internationally acclaimed western painter olaf wieghorst providing the public with educational inspiring and immersive cultural experiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
The olaf wighorst museum foundation operates in el cajon California to preserve the art and heritage of the american west. The museums three largest program services categorized by their allocated espenses focus on public education historical preservation and community arts. Museum operations gallery exhibits and facility maintenance - the primary expenditures focus on operation and maintenance of a 3,300 square foot museum in which other program services can be provided to the public. Key items include insurance utilities repairs and upkeep. It manages the day-to-day operations to ensure a safe climate-controlled environment for visitors and the art collection.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: -10.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.82; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.4% of revenue deployed · 49.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.