Willow Creek China Flat Museum

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 680194044
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2011–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Willow Creek, CA, USA
Phone: 5306292653
Rating: 63
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $105,188
Expenses: $35,537
Assets: $0
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

CAROLINE SNOW (president)
ALLISON MCGONAGLE (Vice President)

People named in this filing

SHANNON HUGHES (Board Member)
CAROLINE SNOW (president)
PATTI PEDIGO (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

Museum

What it reported doing in 2025

Willow Creek China Flat Museum provides information on local history and the legend of Bigfoot.

Operating model

Revenue model: Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 59
Transparency & Controls: 68
Sustainability: 53
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 34.2%; rating input score 34
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 66.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 34.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.