Organ Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236434365
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Villanova, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4844887473
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,783,651
- Expenses
- $1,020,128
- Assets
- $6,371,393
- Liabilities
- $101,496
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- W EDWARD MCCALL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- W EDWARD MCCALL (CEO): $118,881 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Celebrate, preserve & study the pipe organ in america through research, education, advocacy & music.
What it reported doing in 2024
The tracker, the society's quarterly journal, along with other online and print publications, provide members with information on current events and articles of interest in the historic organ field. The publications are available to all members and attendees of the annual convention. Considered the crown jewel of the society, the library and archives of the organ historical society is now housed at the national headquarters in villanova, pa with auxiliary material kept in an environmentally sound warehouse nearby. Proudly, the ohs maintains a permanent collection of more than 15,000 books, periodicals, and documents relating to organ building and preservation. These materials comprise the largest organ research collection in the world. We conducted a number of online events that were met with wide acclaim. Most notably was the five part series. Kaleidoscope of colors, a video presentation on youtube that has garnered over 5,000 views. The series featured fifteen instruments of various sizes, dates of construction, and locations across the country. Another youtube sensation was the production of a biggs scholars video recital presenting three young performers on instruments from three different regions in the USA. While publications such as the tracker and our online newsletter oh, continued apace, the membership committee developed and prepared to launch a new scholarship initiative. We also used video technology to showcase the collections in the ohs library and archives with a half-dozen episodes of ohsla today, currently available on the ohs website and on youtube.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.4%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $47.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 63.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.25; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.4% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $736K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $119K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.