Ballona Discovery Park Partners
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461004730
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Playa Del Rey, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103065994
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,580
- Expenses
- $36,489
- Assets
- $113,649
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA FIMIANI (PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE TYRELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEPHEN J DONELL (TREASURER)
- LISA FIMIANI (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID W KAY (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ballona discovery park partners mission is the ownership, preservation, protection, maintenance and enhancement of ballona discovery park and also the enhancement of recreational activities and programs primarily regarding the ballona wetlands and its watershed to benefit the general public, schools and other educational institutions.
What it reported doing in 2024
In early 2013, k-5 students from neighboring playa vista elementary school adopted a pollinator garden plot, where the students learned how to plant and tend native plants. Since that time, the students have returned as part of their studies to observe how the garden is doing and what kinds of wildlife it has attracted and participate in a bird count. The park is a focal study site for stem teacher professional development workshops that are part of the national science foundation funded by urbanecolab curriculum.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 15
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 18%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13% of revenue deployed · 18% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.