Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society

What it reported doing in 2024

The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society volunteers and three employees operate the Snoqualmie Valley Museum. We collect, preserve, and share the history of the Snoqualmie Valley, so present and future generations can understand our past. We cover over 900 square miles of King County, WA, representing just over 1/3 of the total land area of the county. The Museum operates year-round, six days a week, and is also open via appointment for special tours for groups. Our Museum currently houses over 20,000 objects, books and archival records, over 12,000 historic photographs, and over 100,000 photographic negatives. Approximately half of the Museum's visitors tourists, consisting of day trippers from the larger Puget Sound Region, out-of-state visitors and international tourists and just under half are local and King County residents. The Museum provides a public restroom in the Gardiner Weeks Park. The Museum works with local residents who are interested in genealogy, the history of their homes, the history of the community, and who often want to use historic photographs as part of the décor of their homes and businesses. The Museum works with regional partners such as the City of North Bend, Snoqualmie Valley School District, the King County Library system, the Mountains to Sound Greenway, the Snoqualmie Valley Record, the savorsnoqualmievalley.org website, the Snoqualmie Tribe, Fall City Historical Society, Tolt Historical Society, Duvall Historical Society and the Cedar River Watershed. We publish two newsletters each year, and we publish and sell books about Snoqualmie Valley history. The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum reaches people all over the world and connects them to the history of the Snoqualmie Valley. We daily post historic content on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
• Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70

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: 19.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings