The Coastal Childrens Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010409240
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Rockland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,905
- Expenses
- $149,730
- Assets
- $259,234
- Liabilities
- $25,476
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jesse Ellis (President)
People named in this filing
- Jesse Ellis (President)
- Sarah Smith Weisgall (Treasurer)
- Rick Bernard (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teach children through natural play and STEAMSTEM
What it reported doing in 2024
Hands-on Exhibits-Purchased interactive props and child-sized equipment to create immersive play environments where children includes kitchen store theater boat underwater exploration etc
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 5
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.9%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.9% of revenue deployed · 3.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.