The Noble Maritime Collection
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133351673
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7184476490
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $446,566
- Expenses
- $553,383
- Assets
- $1,187,883
- Liabilities
- $248,362
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MEGAN BECK (Executive Direc): $95,186 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve as a museum and maritime study center, for the work of john a . Noble, a maritime artist, and the working waterfront of New York harbor. The collection offers exhibitions, galleries, classrooms, studios and libraries along with access to archives of its history.
What it reported doing in 2024
To preserve and interpret the art, writings, and historical maritime artifacts of the distinguished marine artist, john a noble, to continue noble's legacy of celebrating the people and traditions of the working waterfront of New York harbor; to preserve and interpret the history of sailor's snug harbor in its collections, exhibitions and programs; and to operate maritime study center inspired by john a noble and mariners of sailor's snug harbor.
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
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 60.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $335K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.