Sweat Morin Homestead
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931370237
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sanford, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2074906840
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $159,986
- Expenses
- $27,361
- Assets
- $159,986
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lawrence K Furbish (President)
- Al Pollard (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- David Yuill (Director)
- Brian Desrochers (Director)
- David Jagger (Director)
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
Create and operate an historic site/museum on a 1786 property in Sanford, Maine which was the original home of the first Congregational minister, Moses Sweat. Extensive restoration and renovation to the house, barn, cematary and outbuildings is needed before the site can be opened to the public. The purpose is to allow the public to learn about life in rural colonial Maine at a living history museum.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tavern Night featuring custom brewed Colonial ale, cider, period appetizers for 75 attendees
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.85; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -29% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 60.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed · 32.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.