The Museum of the San Fernando Valley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261292402
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Northridge, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8183479665
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,721
- Expenses
- $33,132
- Assets
- $193,108
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACKIE LANGA (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- MICHEL STEVENS (CFO)
- DANA RADKE (BOARD MEMBER)
- JACKIE LANGA (President & CEO)
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 Museum of the San Fernando Valley is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit history, arts and culture museum that not only collects, displays and preserves artifacts but gives a central voice to the distinctive histories of all populations from the SFV whose cultures, races, religions and ideas contributed to the Valleys character, growth and development. The Museum is currently free to the public and offers a variety of exhibitions and programs; i.e. a history/artist speaker series, public art initiatives (PAI), Heritage Day events, and museum skill-training for volunteers which includes student interns from Cal State, Northridge. This CSUN partnership program engages students in research, archiving, docenting, exhibit development and metrics gathering. The Museum primarily pays its operating costs through grants and donations from walk-in visitors and museum events as well as limited gift-shop sales of consignment items from those SFV artists and history speakers who volunteer as
What it reported doing in 2024
Los angeles department of cultural affairs grant: dca match grant [educational workshops] - $3,630.00. The museum received this grant regardng the creation and development of an updated historic, inclusive timeline of the history of the san fernando valley- phase i - from inception to 1900. The museum was able to meet its $3,630 match obligation in council district 12 by a 70% in-kind and 30% monetary match through a $2,000.00 philanthropic foundation donation from anchor education foundation, a $1,630 of in-kind match of volunteers who helped research, create, artistically develop, paint and install the first of four 4'x 6' panels in the front of the museum, and $1,630 of museum general funds which were timely matched. This grant will be re-authorized, renewed and re-funded separately for both phase ii(1900 through 1949) and phase iii (1950 through 2010) with a completion time expected to be june 30, 2026. On 8/23/2024 the city of los angeles issued its remittance advice and thereafter sent its 9/19/2024 check for $3,630 which was deposited by the museum on 10/3/2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.3%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 41%; rating input score 41
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.83; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.3% of revenue deployed · 41% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.