The Bolton Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223171866
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Bolton Landing, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5186449960
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,731
- Expenses
- $131,289
- Assets
- $395,607
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HENRY CALDWELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HENRY CALDWELL (PRESIDENT)
- LISA HALL (VICE PRESIDE)
- CONSTANCE REILLY (TREASURER)
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
Mission is to educate townspeople and visitors about the history of bolton, lake george and the surrounding area. Thte museum displays extensive collections of regional artifacts and memorabilia and sponsors a summber lecture series with the darrin fresh water institute in bolton landing.
What it reported doing in 2025
To educate townspeople and visitors about the history of bolton, lake george and the surrounding area through displays of extensive collections of regional artifacts & memorabilia as well as special exhibits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
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: 32.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.