Walker Memorial Hall

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 862601515
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2024–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location: Bridgton, ME, USA
Phone: 2076478934
Rating: 70
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue: $69,398
Expenses: $13,455
Assets: $235,496
Liabilities: $30,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

CHRISTINE BAILLARGEON (Vice President)
ROGER LOWELL (President)

People named in this filing

CHRISTINE BAILLARGEON (Vice President)
NORMAN NICHOLSON (Treasurer)
LAURIE CHALMERS (Secretary)

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

Provide a venue for the use and benefit of the community

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide community access to an historical building and its historical contents: library of antique books, mineral collections, and theatre for performing arts.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 49
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 82
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 19.4%; rating input score 19
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 80.6%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.5; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -71.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 44.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 19.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
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.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.