Winslow Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860901729
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Winslow, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9282895861
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,569
- Expenses
- $53,293
- Assets
- $149,479
- Liabilities
- $403
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTA KNOX (President)
People named in this filing
- ANN MARY LUTZICK (Executive Dir.)
- LORI BENTLEY LAW (Secretary)
- BOB HALL (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Winslow Historical Society receives, preserves, and interprets information and artifacts representing the history of Winslow, Arizona, in order to engage the public with the Old Trails Museum's exhibits and programs. The museum is free, open 20 hours per week, and hosted 2330 vistors in 2024. The museum publishes an annual historical calendar and develops exhibits and other content that interpret its photographic and archival collections. The museum has four on-line photographic collections on the Arizona Memory Project: three permanently-installed, off-site exhibits in Winslow; and hosts free programs for the public several times a year, including an annual meeting of the historical society membership. The museum informs the public of its activities through two websites, two Facebook pages, and a biannual newsletter.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public Outreach: The Winslow Historical Society also presents the history of Winslow, Arizona through free public programs and online outlets. The museum typically hosts multiple annual programs and special events, which in 2024 included a total of 325 attendees. The museum maintains two websites - one for itself that features its exhibits and videos, and one for a partnership program it co-hosts each year - which had a combined total of 30,870 visitors in 2024. Its interpretive video. "A Brief History of Winslow, Arizona" was viewed 6680 times on YouTube in 2024. The museum also has four collections hosted on the Arizona State Library's Arizona Memory Project website that were viewed 465 times in 2024. The museum informs the public of all its activities through two websites, two Facebook pages, and a biannual newsletter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -63.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.8; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.