Tri State Museum Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731689750
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Belle Fourche, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6057231200
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,015
- Expenses
- $7,726
- Assets
- $20,242
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WAYNE GILBERT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY WENDT (SECRETARY/TR)
- WAYNE GILBERT (PRESIDENT)
- DEB ELLIOT (DIRECTOR)
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
Receive and disburse funds, property and gifts of any kind for the benefit of the tri-state museum in the operation of any of its facilities, programs and activities for the benefit of the belle fourche, sd community and surrounding area.
What it reported doing in 2025
Receive and disburse funds, for the benefit of the tri-state museum
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.62; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.