Allen & Alice Stokes Nature Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311513495
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Logan, UT, USA
Phone
4357553239
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,679,546
Expenses
$508,421
Assets
$1,795,289
Liabilities
$108,443

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KENDRA PENRY-CLUTTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KENDRA PENRY-CLUTTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,040 total reported compensation
  • CARLOS RAMOS (DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES): $44,068 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 allen and alice stokes nature center provides a nature education and outdoor exploration for people of all ages. It operates an interpretive center facility in the cache national forest near logan, Utah. It provides nature and science-related workshops for school classes, a variety of educational nature walks, story time, a nature preschool, summer day camps for youth, as well as workshops for youth and adults. Primary sources of support are contributions from individuals, foundations, and government agencies. Fundraising support and expenses primarily result from an annual benefit dinner and auction.

What it reported doing in 2024

The allen & alice stokes nature center offers multiple low-cost and/or free programs aimed at serving all who live, work in, or visit cache valley. These include the state's first and longest running nature preschool which blends outdoor learning with montessori principles. Student to teacher ratios are the lowest of any preschool program in cache valley at 4:1, and curricula are student-driven to maximize engagement and learning.for older students, stokes provides school programs which align Utah state seed standards with local nature exploration for pre k-12 students. Students learn outdoors and program pricing is kept low to maximize access, including through stokes' transportation scholarships which provide full funding for title i schools.additionally, stokes community programs provide outdoor, recreation, science, and sustainability skills to learners of all ages. Programs are diverse and shift with the seasons, including such programs as maple tapping, fly-tying, summer camps for 1st-12th graders, scientific illustration workshops, and guided hikes in the national forest among others.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 75% 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.

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: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 23.1%; rating input score 23
  • Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $39.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 69.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.53; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 23.1% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $386K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 23/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.