The Robert Brady Museum Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273379224
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2144786297
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $236,357
- Expenses
- $263,439
- Assets
- $1,461,930
- Liabilities
- $10,096
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gail C George (President & VP)
People named in this filing
- BRIAN BOCKMAN (Director)
- Gail C George (President & VP)
- J HADEN COWDREY JR (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To operate exclusively for the benefit of Fundacion Robert Brady, A.C., a civil association organized under the laws of the Republic of Mexico and operating a museum in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, exempt from income tax pursuant to Article 70-B of the Mexican Income Tax Law and recognized as the equivalent of a U.S. public charity under section 509(a)(1) and Section 509(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, pursuant to Article 22, U.S.- Mexico Tax Treaty of September 18,1992.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public Attendance (Ticket Window Sales) increased from the prior year because of return to normal since COVID-19 Pandemic.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.55; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.