The Cold War Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541819817
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Vint Hill, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5403412008
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,925
- Expenses
- $74,503
- Assets
- $24,263
- Liabilities
- $2,761
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON HALL (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRE)
People named in this filing
- CHARLES RAY (BOARD MEMBER)
- COL CHARLES P WILSON (BOARD CHAIR)
- JASON HALL (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRE)
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
The cold war museum is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to education, preservation, and research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations between east and west from the end of world war ii to the dissolution of the soviet union.the three main goals of the museum are to:1). Develop permanent cold war museums to preserve local and regional cold war history, including a national museum facility located in the Washington, dc / northern Virginia area.2). Erect cold war memorials, including a national cold war memorial located near arlington national cemetery to honor men and women killed as part of the cold war.3). Establish a reference library and research center to help maintain the historical accuracy of the cold war.
What it reported doing in 2024
Interim museum facility: we are developing our permanent location at vint hill, a former army communication base used by the nsa, cia, and army inteligence during the cold war. Features in the permanent museum building will include a central hall with exhibits, a small theater, the main gallery, a picture gallery, library and study areas and gift store. The central hall will include items from the berlin airflift, usmlm, uss pueblo, uss liberty, the u-2 incident, the bay of pigs, and the cuban missile crissis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.