Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911937645
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3609921800
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,470,539
- Expenses
- $5,147,829
- Assets
- $21,109,687
- Liabilities
- $2,609,690
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EILEEN TEMPLE LENTZ (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- EILEEN TEMPLE LENTZ (CEO): $193,502 total reported compensation
- AMANDA MOORE (CONTROLLER): $119,704 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire civic pride and economic vitality through education, preservation and celebration of our history.
What it reported doing in 2025
Master lease of city of vancouver property: the trust holds a long term lease of officers row and the west vancouver barracks from the city of vancouver where the trust is responsible for the leasing, maintenance and preservation of the historic structures. The trust leases approximately 170,000 square feet of space to tenants with additional public spaces for education, interpretation and event rental venues. Public use buildings and event venues include the howard house, marshall house, grant house, red cross building and the artillary barracks building. These locations serve a variety of events throughout the year including weddings, business meetings, fundraisers, seminars and conferences for a variety of users who get to experience the history and the historic site. Expenses listed above include operating expenses, master lease expenses, transfers out and capital fund expenses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.1; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $194K · 17 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $196K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.