Wood Lake Battlefield Preservation Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743168615
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Boyd, MN, USA
- Phone
- 3208552428
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Commemorative Events
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,143
- Expenses
- $1,433
- Assets
- $55,438
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AL KOENIG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVE CRAIGMILE (SECRETARY/TR)
- DENNIS DAHMES (SECRETARY/TR)
- AL KOENIG (PRESIDENT)
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 preserve, restore, promote and respectfully interpret for all people, the wood lake battle site and the history involving the us/dakota war of 1862. The mission is also to share the history involving why and what happened at the site in 1862.
What it reported doing in 2025
The association continues to work on plans or walking paths, signage, nursing and expanding the prairie grass, and better communication with its membership. Information can be found on our website, www.woodlakebattlefield.com and on social media. Rack cards are avalable both at the monument and battlefield sites, allowing people a more informed visit. Our major goal is currently building our financial resources. In 2022, the association solicited donations for their endowment fund with the southwest initiative foundation (swif) in hutchinson, mn and partnering with a director who offered a 20,000 match. The goal being to build the fund for a sustainable annual payout to fund site maintenance and improvements. Public meetings are held in april and september (on the saturday closest to the anniversary of the battle, september 23). Anyone interested in Minnesota history is encouraged to attend these public meetings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.7%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 38.69; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.7% of revenue deployed · 7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $100 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.