White Bluffs Quilt Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830478512
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Richland, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5099432552
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,200
- Expenses
- $47,546
- Assets
- $113,495
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cheryl Whistler Garrison (President, Board of Directors)
- Virginia A Coffman (Vice President, Board of Directors)
People named in this filing
- Cheryl Whistler Garrison (President, Board of Directors)
- Virginia A Coffman (Vice President, Board of Directors)
- Karen Brun (Secretary, Board of Directors)
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
To collect, conserve, exhibit vintage and modern quilts and textiles. To teach conservation of vintage textiles. To teach quilting techniques
What it reported doing in 2025
We provide classes in quilting , dating vintage textiles, also storage, and quilt conservation techniques. Our membership of 170, local quilt guilds with memberships upwards of 200 and the general public through literature and quilt show displays all benefit from our programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.1%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 27
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: 30.3%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 75.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.1% of revenue deployed · 26.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 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 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.