World AIDS Museum Incorporated

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453419591
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Phone
9543900550
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,471
Expenses
$139,841
Assets
$97,472
Liabilities
$31,353

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE STAGON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LIGA DINALLO (DIRECTOR)
  • MARK FRANCIS (DIRECTOR)
  • LINDA SAUGET (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

World AIDS museum and educational center (the organization) is a not-for- profit organization and was incorporated in the state of Florida on september 20, 2011 to raise awareness and eradicate stigma of HIV/AIDS by documenting the history, remembering those who have suffered, educating people about the disease, enlightening the world to this continuing tragedy and empowering the survivors.

What it reported doing in 2025

The world AIDS museum and educational center, opened on may 15, 2014 in wilton manors, Florida and moved in august 2020 to fort lauderdale, Florida. We are a museum and educational center that is open to the public to visit, explore and enjoy. We offer guided docent tours on request. In our main gallery is the chronology of AIDS, which is the history of HIV and AIDS. We have a small art gallery, multimedia, and artifacts that offer thought-provoking and heartwarming art experiences. Educational programs since 2015, we have partnered with broward county public schools to provide HIV and sexually transmitted infection (sti) prevention education in individual classroom, school club, and school assembly settings. In addition to presentation and video, interactive engagement allows students to ask questions and confront their own fears and biases. The goal of "in ctrl" is to educate and empower young people to make educated life choices. In addition to broward county middle and high schools other venues such as alternative schools and juvenile detention centers are provided education. Our outreach began in the fall of 2015. Since then, our education committee and training staff have taught about 10,000 students. Our "in ctrl-educated choices" program is a very detailed safe-sex lesson about HIV and stis. In december 2016, a second offering, "stigma elimination," was undertaken to help eradicate stigma toward people living with HIV or AIDS. Stigma contributes to infection-spread because it acts as a barrier to testing. Testing leads to treatment which prevents transmission. We also provide professional development programming for all levels of social and health-services providers to increase their cultural competence in working with clients or patients around issues related to HIV and AIDS. Our educators include adults who have been living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as high school and college student peer educators who work in pairs to present the programs. The peer educator program includes a multi-session training experience, along with supervised field experience. We welcome undergraduate and graduate students looking for field experiences to enrich their education through working on a variety of museum programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 63.4%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -93%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 63.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.