Three Bostons Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474223169
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
New Boston, TX, USA
Phone
9036280411
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Museum, Museum Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$145,926
Expenses
$166,356
Assets
$101,250
Liabilities
$121,680

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • Elizabeth Lea (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Collect, research, preserve, catalog, and document artifacts from our collection and community that promote understanding of the way of life of our past generations. Focus our efforts on the primary categories of tools and artifacts owned and used by the workers, craftsmen, and artisans that are donated by the museum founders and benefactors including items from local industries, clothing and related fabric arts, home crafts, ? farming, occupations, and pastimes in our 3 Bostons area. Exhibit our artifacts and produce interpretive living history displays and participatory programs. Promote the studies of history, culture, and heritage by making our facilities available to the community and schools and by supporting other local historical organizations and their members through reciprocal agreements and joint projects. Act as a central repository and archive for written, printed, and graphic paper documents and photographs that are relevant to our local history and culture, particularly

What it reported doing in 2025

They provide artifacts of history of Bowie County with pictures and articles for the public to see

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.2; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $165K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.