Rio Blanco County Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900175993
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Meeker, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9708789982
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,761
- Expenses
- $76,224
- Assets
- $231,443
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Teresia R Reed (Executive Director)
- Samantha Turner (President)
- Stevey Brickey (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Teresia R Reed (Executive Director)
- Samantha Turner (President)
- Stevey Brickey (Vice-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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Rio Blanco County Historical Society, Inc. serves as the steward organization over the White River Museum and its holdings. The White River Museum collects, preserves, interprets, and shares a community-based social history collection that reflects the lived experiences of the people of the Meeker area and the White River Valley. Through objects of everyday life, we connect past and present, foster stewardship of local heritage, and ensure these stories endure for future generations. The White River Museum houses a community-based social history collectionover 250,000 objects that document the everyday lives, work, and culture of the people who have called the Meeker area home.The mission of the White River Museum is to collect, preserve, interpret, and share the community-based social history of the Meeker area and the White River Valley, honoring the lives, work, and everyday experiences of the people who have shaped this place.
What it reported doing in 2024
We maintain and have upgraded the museum content and provided a walk through history to 4500 visitors. The staff of four provides guided tours and performs research for our visitors
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.3%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.3% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.