Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431346839
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Jefferson City, MO, USA
Phone
5736161911
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$52,505
Expenses
$219,003
Assets
$190,248

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

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAUREN A HORSMAN (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT M CLAYTON III (PRESIDENT EL)

People named in this filing

  • JONATHAN STERNBERG (TRUSTEE)
  • HEIDI DOERHOFF VOLLET (SEC./TREAS.)
  • JOHN S BLACK (TRUSTEE)

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

The society's purposes include encouraging research into the court's history, promoting increased popular and scholarly knowledge of history of Missouri's judicial system, preserving the supreme court building, and displaying artifacts of permanent value.

What it reported doing in 2025

Activities of the society include research necessary to the ultimate publication of a history of the supreme court of Missouri, commencement of an oral history project, efforts to locate and obtain memorabilia of persons connected with the court, needed restoration of portraits of former judges, and efforts to increase the membership of the society. The society accepts contributions from the public in varying amounts in return for membership in the society.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -317.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 44; 44th 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: 96.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -61.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $219K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.