Akron Parks Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824927742
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Akron, OH, USA
Phone
3308015255
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Parks and Playgrounds

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$548,615
Expenses
$414,267
Assets
$432,029
Liabilities
$34,500

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATE DEANGELIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DEREK STONE (PRESIDENT)
  • BRIDGET AMBRISCO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRIDGET AMBRISCO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $105,902 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To engage the akron, Ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. We foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and instill a sense of stewardship among park users.

What it reported doing in 2025

Engagement of the akron, Ohio community around revitalizing neighborhood parks within the city and fostering and supporting friends of parks stewardship groups around single city parks. Engagement included working with several neighborhood communities to design park improvements and support park programs. In 2025, we supported four park communities in planning for their parks with 810 people engaged through events, programs, surveys and conversations. Apc supported seventeen friends group and held 95 community meetings and input sessions with 468 individual sign-ins.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $357K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.