Scandinavian American Cultural & Historical Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770265041
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8056607799
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,036
- Expenses
- $136,036
- Assets
- $143,160
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN DARNALL (Vice President)
- KAREN ASHIM (President)
- ERIC RENN (Vice President)
- JANICE WALSH (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MALIA STORM-LARSEN (CFO)
- DAVID NELSON (Director)
- KAREN DARNALL (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
Preserve and promote scandinavian heritage and culture for present & future generations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scan fest - provide scandinavian food, games & education for all ages, children to seniors, as a gift to the local cities and counties
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 61; 61st 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: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.