Tile Heritage Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680135531
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Healdsburg, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7074318453
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,593
- Expenses
- $197,217
- Assets
- $188,255
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joseph A Taylor (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Joseph A Taylor (President): $38,827 total reported compensation
- Sheila A Menzies (Exec Director and Treasurer): $37,974 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 1987 the Tile Heritage Foundation is dedicated to promoting and protecting ceramic surfaces in the United States
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Services - PUBLISHING: Tile Heritage A Review of American Tile History E-News Historic Catalogs National Resource Directory. All publications are designed to educated and enhance the public awareness about the history & value of ceramic surfacing materials in America and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
MIXED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 1st 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.9% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $39K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 41 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX AllOtherExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Occupancy column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.