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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: June 2025 Expires: June 2027

Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing

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Meets Standards

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7410 Moorman Road
Louisville, KY, 40272

Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing exists to promote, preserve, restore, and interpret historic farm life on the Ohio River.

Year, State Incorporated:
1993, KY

Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing is a 300-acre historic site on the Ohio River in southwest Louisville. The site offers tours of the historic Farnsley-Moremen House, educational programs, and community events (small festivals, weekly farmers’ market, annual plant sale) centered on its mission. Riverside’s award-winning public archaeology field trips are one of its signature educational programs. The site includes a visitors’ center with exhibits and meeting spaces, a museum store, an open-air pavilion, a historic chapel building, a community garden, a historic garden, outdoor historic interpretative signage along pathways, and access to the Louisville Loop.

For the year ended June 30, 2024, Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing's program expenses were:

History on the Move $113,726
Special Events $59,367
General $25,323
Building Blocks $6,582
Historic Garden $2,419
Total Program Expenses $207,417

Chief Executive
Patti Linn, Historic Site Manager

Chair of the Board
Ms. Carmen Miller

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation

Board Size
16

Paid Staff Size
6

% of Related Contributions on Fundraising: 0.00%

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing's unaudited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2024.

Source of Funds
Donations and sponsorships $640,723
Interest and dividends $15,388
Admissions $13,028
Vending and sales receipts $1,307
Membership dues $984
Total Income $671,430

Programs: 87% Fundraising: 0% Administrative: 13%

Total Income $671,430
Total expenses: $239,425
  Program expenses $207,417
  Fundraising expenses $0
  Administrative expenses $32,008
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $432,005
Beginning Net Assets $444,798
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $876,803
Total Liabilities $1,035
Total Assets $877,838

The above financial information is from Riverside's Compilation Report for FY ending 6/30/2024.

Ending net assets as reported above include $358,431 without donor restrictions and $518,372 with donor restrictions.

Total assets as reported above include $68,546 in Historical Collections and $3,877 in property and equipment, net, which totals $72,423 in fixed assets.

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