Museum for Art in Wood
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222806780
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2159238000
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,362,462
- Expenses
- $1,347,604
- Assets
- $19,113,873
- Liabilities
- $890,705
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MILLIKEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LISA TREMPER HANOVER (INTERIM PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER MILLIKEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $125,388 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The museum for art in wood engages, educates, and inspires the public through the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of contemporary art in wood.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 1995, the museum for art in wood has awarded fellowships in its annual windgate arts residency program in wood (warp wood). In 2016, the museum added one more fellowship - a student artist resident fellow. This program is a collegial experience in which the resident fellows explore new work through research, exploration, and collaboration. Included annually are now six wood artists, which include the student artist, a photojournalist, and a scholar selected from an international pool of applicants. They work individually and collaboratively. The scholar gains in depth understanding of the wood art field and its practitioners. The documentary artist documents the program experience in traditional and innovative ways.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 61.8%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.18; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 61.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $833K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.