Prospect House and Civil War Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273631846
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Battle Lake, MN, USA
Phone
2188644008
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$115,432
Expenses
$68,425
Assets
$209,497

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN WYNEKEN (President)

People named in this filing

  • DAVID COLEHOUR (Director)
  • ANNE WYNEKEN (Director)
  • TOM COLMAN (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The prospect house museum provides unique educational experiences based on authentic objects, stories, and life of an american pioneering family. The prospect house museum also explores the stories of the battle lake area as a vacation destination, past, present, and future, to inspire residents and visitors with the creativity and enterprise of the human spirit.

What it reported doing in 2025

Preserve the Colehour collection, the Prospect House, its contents, and the surrounding grounds.Bring Colehours story and era to life for people of all ages through activities and events, including live and virtual tours of the Civil War Museum and the Prospect House, educational and interpretive programs, and commemorative events.Enhance understanding of the Civil War era and its impact on those who fought by employing various means, including:1. Publishing original documents from the Colehour collection.2. Making the collection available to scholars, students and others interested in understanding the Civil War era and its people.3. Expanding the collection of Colehour Family artifacts and related source materials.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

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: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.8%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 27

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 15.8% of revenue deployed · 26.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.