Annual Report and IRS Form 990 Metropolitan Museum of Art

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when I'm doing research on nonprofits there are seven key questions that need to be asked three of them are answered on the first page first is is who is the organization there's an address label there's a phone number and there's also website in the description just to make sure that you're looking at the right organization so you know who it is that you're talking with the second one we're going to ask is is how big are they and there's a couple of good ways to do that my favorite is to look at individuals employed and also volunteers that gives us a sense of size you can compare them to different organizations in the same way you can look at the revenue numbers expenses and fund balances to get a sense of scale and then the third question is are they financially healthy and so we're going to look left to right you know identifying where there's growth trending in the right direction and it's a quick check I encourage you to download last three years you can see trends what you're al