Battenkill Conservancy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141774022
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Cambridge, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5186772545
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Social Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,174
- Expenses
- $16,513
- Assets
- $174,483
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM KRATTINGER (Director)
- BRYAN HARRINGTON (Director)
- LORRAINE MERGHART BALLARD (Chairman)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Battenkill Conservancy's mission is to preserve & enhance the Battenkill watershed through education, conservation, advocacy & the River Watch Program. Our goals include conserving land within the watershed to ensure clean water for all, supporting sustainable fishery, biodiversity, outdoor education and multi-use recreation by protecting and restoring aquatic and terrestrial habitats while ensuring the public access to one of the areas most important environmental, recreational, historic, cultural and economic assets of the region.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocacy: BkCs advocacy work during 2025 continued with our family friendly, free events geared to educating and engaging the public in watershed focused experiences. We kicked off the year with our Annual Meeting and Speaker Series, and presented Bill Throops book, Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change at the Greenwich Free Library. Over 50 people attended. In April we assisted the NYS DEC with trout stocking days; In August we worked with the Washington County Federation of Sportsmen to offer our macroinvertebrate PICKY BUG Table at the Washington County Fair; and in October, we hosted a Fire & Water Festival at the Battenkill Riverside Park with three local musical bands, a food trucks and kids friendly activities including a cold plunge sauna activity. BkC requested Consulting Party status with the NYS DOT as it relates to the Battenville Bridge changes.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.57; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.6% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.