The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222944249
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Morris Plains, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9735400311
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $855,577
- Expenses
- $668,310
- Assets
- $1,522,858
- Liabilities
- $82,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA A WEISKITTEL (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- VONDA GIVENS (FORMER EXEC): $96,459 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN CLANCY (EXECUTIVE DI): $88,977 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The stickley museum at craftsman farms' mission is to develop, demonstrate, and deepen connections between history, design, lifestyle, and the natural environment, through the preservation of craftsman farms and the presentation of the ideals of gustav stickley and the arts and crafts movement in america.
What it reported doing in 2025
The stickley museum at craftsman farms (smcf) is a national historic landmark and historic house museum, located on the campus of craftsman farms in parsippany, New Jersey. Built by gustav stickley between 1908 and 1917 as the most complete expression of his "craftsman" style, the campus of craftsman farms provides an unmatched opportunity to experience stickley's ideas about the impact of architecture, design, and landscape on a meaningful life. In partnership with the owner of the property, the township of parsippany-troy hills, which rescued craftsman farms from private development in 1989, the museum works to interpret, preserve, and protect its original landscape and nine original buildings, including the log house, which is open for scheduled tours. The museum works daily to preserve and restore the craftsman farms' property and to interpret the property through its collections, tours, and programs, both online and on- site, which include lectures, panel discussions, trips, and courses covering a wide range of topics related to design, decorative arts, and architecture. Now in its 36th year, the museum is dedicated to serving its neighboring community, history and heritage tourists, and design, craft, and architecture audiences from the across the united states and abroad.
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
STRONG - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.4%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.4% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $488K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.