Androscoggin River Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331141968
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Lewiston, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2079335268
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $350
- Expenses
- $22,954
- Assets
- $22,924
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laurence Faiman (President)
People named in this filing
- Gregory D'Augustine (Director)
- John Lichter (Director)
- Arlene Morris (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1. To support the establishment of water quality regulations and operating licenses and permits that will improve the quality of the water in the Androscoggin River;2. To oppose attempts by river users or state or local government to impede any program of water quality improvement, either through regulation or legislation, or through governmental decision to permit establishment of new or expanded industrial, commercial, or residential operations and developments that would unreasonably degrade water quality, or would delay progress being made towards its improvement;3. To enhance aquatic life in the Androscoggin River and its tributaries, through improvement of fish passage at the Brunswick, ME fish ladder, and perhaps removal of non-hydro dams on tributaries of the Androscoggin;4. To provide educational efforts to increase public and local government appreciation of the benefits of a cleaner Androscoggin River, which include the health of river valley inhabitants, greater recreationa
What it reported doing in 2013
ARA received additional funding in 2011 to continue the first ever study of returning adult Atlantic salmon in the Androscoggin River Water shed in conjunction with the Maine Department of Marine Resource (DMR). The ARA funding provided 20 telemetry tags that were to be implanted into the salmon at the head of the tide dam in Brunswick. Unfortunately, the 2012 season eliminated by an early June flood on the Androscoggin River forced the closure of the Brunswick fishway because the fishway had been completely inundated with flood debris during the peak salmon return season. No salmon returned to our river during the 2012 season. In 2013, ARA tried again with only 2 salmon returning to the river. Due to the salmon listing as an endangered species, the State of Maine required a study of attraction flow at the fishway. The 2 salmon that returned were tagged and then trucked back downstream to see if they would return to the fishway; they did not. The entire study was lost for 2013 as well.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6,458.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 97.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -50% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 8 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.