Paperweight Collectors Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521949509
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Salisbury, NC, USA
- Phone
- 5853552421
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,601
- Expenses
- $32,533
- Assets
- $158,067
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GORDON PARK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BEN CLARK (DEALERS' REP)
- PEGGY WINKLER (MEMBERSHIP S)
- ERIC JUMP (VICE-PRESIDE)
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
To educate members and the public about glass paperweights.
What it reported doing in 2024
1) conducted seminars february 8th (paperweight offerings), may 10th (resources for beginning collectors), and august 9th (landscape paperweights). 2) published a bulletin providing technical expertise, historical background and market information. The bulletin reaches 471 individual subscribers. 3) conducted outreach at the bergstrom museum of glass arts festival. 4) provided grants in the amount of 3,450 to ms. Alison ruzsa (1,950) for attendance at a glass art seminar and ms melissa ayotte (1,500) to organize and host a seminar for the new england paperweight group.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.4%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 57.8%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.86; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.4% of revenue deployed · 57.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 32/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.