Sappington House Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831389951
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3148228171
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$134,575
Expenses
$136,851
Assets
$319,029

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dyann Dierkes (President)
  • Ted Michael (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Sally Cakouros (Foundation Mgr.)
  • Carey Krieger (Controller)
  • Jan Krumm (Foundation Mgr.)

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

To strive to educate the community to discover, appreciate and protect its own and St. Louis' heritage. We engage in ongoing and reflective institutional planning that includes involvement of its audiences and community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Tours of the Museum Tours and educational tours of museum three days a week and on the third Saturday of every month additional special event tours througout the year, attracting over 1,100 persons.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 121.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.