York County History Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352323
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178481587
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,429,988
- Expenses
- $3,812,372
- Assets
- $42,372,905
- Liabilities
- $5,237,801
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOAN J MUMMERT (PRESIDENT, CEO (LEFT 4/25))
- TERRI ALTLAND (CEO (JOINED 05/25))
Highest reported compensation
- JOAN J MUMMERT (PRESIDENT, CEO (LEFT 4/25)): $120,389 total reported compensation
- LORISSA DELANEY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $100,874 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The york county history center understands the past to illuminate the future, through inclusive, authentic storytelling, and preservation.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the past fiscal year (july 2024- june 2025) the history center welcomed 21,047 visitors to its sites as visitors, program participants, library researchers, and special event attendees. Of that number, more than 2,820 students participated in field trips to the history center's five museums. School age programming includes thematic tours focusing on york county's colonial and revolutionary era history, the civil war period, industrial and manufacturing heritage and more. These programs provide an overview of state and local history and align with the Pennsylvania board of education academic standards. The history center was able to offer 65 programs reaching a diverse audience base through demonstrations, a monthly lecture series, workshops, and interactive experiences at both online and in-person. In addition, the history center hosts a number of community organizations' monthly meetings and programs often open to the public free of charge. Traditional partnerships continued, such as support for the city of york special events, re-enactor groups for living history events, and the york county convention and visitors bureau for promotion and coordination of county wide heritage tourism. The history center has also provided numerous community educational programs for continuing adult education courses, talks for various community organizations, public walking tours, and monthly library and archives seminars offering insights into various research and genealogical techniques. In addition to in-person and online programs, the history center's website offers various resources and content. The website had an average of 16,000 monthly views.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.3%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 69.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.11; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.3% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 30 of 30 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 34 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.3M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.