Union Station Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870370650
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ogden, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8013939882
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,762
- Expenses
- $21,323
- Assets
- $611,105
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMELIA JONES (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROGER CHRISTENSEN (DIRECTOR)
- BRANDON COOPER (DIRECTOR)
- JULIE FISHER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise funds for the historic ogden union station and its four museums: the Utah state railroad museum, the john m browning firearms museum, the browning-kimball car museum and the cowboy museum.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raised funds for the operation and maintainence of the ogden union station, including operation of the four museums and related collections.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.3%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 90%; rating input score 90; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 86.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 28.66; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.3% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.