Trailerland

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871289339
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
San Miguel, CA, USA
Phone
8056102315
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
History Museums

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$199,893
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Greg Wilcox (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Greg Wilcox (Executive Director)
  • Kevin McLaren (Director)
  • Chuck Swanson (Director (Secretary/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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Education - Museum

What it reported doing in 2024

Recorded/archived oral histories of California Central Coast folks, i.e., Gil Serna, Merrell Fankhauser, Johny Barbata (1960's surf music pioneers), Terry Leezer(Vietnam vet, Camp Roberts), Earl Holliman(Golden Globe winner), Susie Olt(wife of John Olt, designer NASA Mercury seats) All available on trailerland.org website. Published monthly newsletter focused on 1950's and 60's CA Central Coast, Trailerland Talk Mentored two Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo student interns for history department, interviewed/recorded George S. Stuart(sculptor colleague of Martha Armstrong Hand), interviewed Laurie Wolf, Central Coast 1960s resident

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.