Quilt Heritage Museum
Legal name: Quilt Heritage Museum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270635380
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Blackfoot, ID, US
- Phone
- (208) 785-5936
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,286
- Expenses
- $5,406
- Assets
- $33,734
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOYCE SHOEMAKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DIANA CARY (TREASURER)
- STEVE SCHMID (DIRECTOR)
- JOYCE SHOEMAKER (PRESIDENT)
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
To preserve quilts and educate people about this heritage art form.
The Quilt Heritage Museum (QHM) is a nonprofit organization based in Blackfoot, Idaho, dedicated to preserving quilts and educating the public about this heritage art form. Founded by Southeast Idaho community members, QHM is actively working toward establishing a brick-and-mortar location to permanently house its collection of over 100 exhibition quilts. The museum hosts educational workshops, exhibits, and events, and runs a 'Home for Quilts' campaign to raise $150,000 for a permanent space. QHM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and welcomes donations of quilts, funds, and volunteer time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 47.3%; rating input score 47
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -64.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.24; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 47.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.