Shirley Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042683545
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Shirley, MA, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,468
- Expenses
- $16,820
- Assets
- $406,495
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jacqueline Stanton (President)
- Marie Elwyn (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jacqueline Stanton (President)
- Marie Elwyn (Vice President)
- Ruth Rhonemus (Secretary)
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
Preserve and promote the appreciation and knowledge of the historic assets of Town of Shirley for the benefit of the community and its students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maintain and preserve historical archives and artifacts of the Town of Shirley at museum and conduct educational programs on history and culture in the schools community and at the museum. In 2025 there were 1100 visitors to the museum 210 children taught at school 969 Facebook followers 4 tours of Shaker Buildings 750 visitors attended programs.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 24.17; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.