State Symbols USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205994082
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6073728762
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,010
- Expenses
- $23,992
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARD MILLER PHD (PRESIDENT & ACTING EXECUTI)
- NANCY GROSS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DARD MILLER PHD (PRESIDENT & ACTING EXECUTI)
- NANCY GROSS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KILEY VANARSDALE (TREASUER)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
State symbols USA is dedicated to promoting appreciation and conservation of our natural, historic, and cultural treasures through an interactive website providing information on state and national symbols and icons, cities, towns, parks, landmarks, local historic markers, and historic and iconic figures. State symbols USA promotes further learning by offering teachers, home-schooling parents, students, and the general public a free, user-friendly, interactive, and shared educational resource. The organization will maintain a high-quality, classroom-appropriate website and conduct outreach to educators to expand classroom and community.
What it reported doing in 2020
The organization maintains a high-quality, classroom-appropriate website and conducts outreach to educators to expand classroom and community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- 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: -242.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2020
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.