The Weston Historical Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
440648094
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Weston, MO, USA
Phone
8163862977
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$148,195
Expenses
$143,445
Assets
$348,662

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN GALLOWAY (Vice President)
  • CLAY BAUSKE (President)

People named in this filing

  • JOHN GALLOWAY (Vice President)
  • CLAY BAUSKE (President)
  • JULIE HOFFMAN (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization is devoted to furthering the cultural and educational interests of the community through the preservation of artifacts, documents, and material of other eras concerning this particular area. It shall provide a building known as The Weston Historical Museum, and within it attractively display material that has been related to the growth and development of Weston, Missouri and Platte County It shall assume responsibility for the management and preservation of historical material within its trust. Benefits the general public.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign focuses on the effect upon the community of our Black Heritage. Benefits the General Public

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.