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American Swedish Institute

EIN 41-0711603Arts, Culture, Humanities Minnesota Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Celebrating Swedish culture

The American Swedish Institute (ASI), founded in 1929 by Swedish immigrant newspaperman Swan J. Turnblad, is a historic house, museum, and cultural center that celebrates Swedish and Swedish-American culture. The Institute's Turnblad mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. The ASI's purpose is to maintain an institute for the purpose of education to provide lectures, public meetings, conferences, art galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, concerts, and publications which promote knowledge of Swedish arts, literature and science. Our accomplishments for fiscal year ending 2008 include 75,000 museum visitors, two major exhibits, 10 smaller exhibits, and enhancements to permanent exhibits.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

88.46Overall score
out of 100

85.27Financial score
out of 100

93.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$4,445,463

Total expenses · USD$4,258,783

Program expenses

$2,870,419.74 recorded amount

67.4%

Fundraising expenses

$272,562.11 recorded amount

6.4%

Administrative expenses

$1,111,542.36 recorded amount

26.1%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Bruce Karstadt
Recorded compensation: $129,189.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 3.03%

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All 23 original fields for American Swedish Institute
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	93.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	The American Swedish Institute (ASI), founded in 1929 by Swedish immigrant newspaperman Swan J. Turnblad, is a historic house, museum, and cultural center that celebrates Swedish and Swedish-American culture. The Institute's Turnblad mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. The ASI's purpose is to maintain an institute for the purpose of education to provide lectures, public meetings, conferences, art galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, concerts, and publications which promote knowledge of Swedish arts, literature and science. Our accomplishments for fiscal year ending 2008 include 75,000 museum visitors, two major exhibits, 10 smaller exhibits, and enhancements to permanent exhibits.
`ein` EIN	41-0711603
`tot_exp` Total expenses	4258783.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.261
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.09
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.064
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.674
`fscore` Financial score	85.27
`leader` Recorded leader	Bruce Karstadt
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	129189.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.030299999999999997
`motto` Tagline	Celebrating Swedish culture
`name` Charity name	American Swedish Institute
`tot_rev` Total revenue	4445463.0
`score` Overall score	88.46
`state` State code	MN
`subcategory` Subcategory	Museums
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	2870419.742
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	272562.112
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1111542.3630000001

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 41-0711603
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Museums
Recorded location: Minnesota (MN)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.