Bear Lake Preservation Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593115526
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Apopka, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4072125129
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,301
- Expenses
- $7,623
- Assets
- $60,247
- 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
- Arthur Jay Goebel (President)
- Robert Shields (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Arthur Jay Goebel (President)
- Robert Shields (Vice-President)
- Tim Clifford (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Bear Lake Preservation Association is to provide environmental and civic stewardship for the Bear Lakes watershed. This is achieved through water quality monitoring, scientific understanding, public education, governmental intervention, and watershed improvements for the enhancement and preservation of the water quality and biological integrity of clean lakes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bear Lake Preservation Association (BLPA) represents the residents of Lake Asher, Bear Lake, Little Bear Lake and Cub Lake. Every year a newsletter is written and produced by BLPA and mailed to all of the lake residents in the four lakes area. We maintain and update the BLPA website periodically. This communication keeps the lake residents current on the health and quality of the lake waters. Bear Lake Preservation Association volunteers submit monthly lake water samples to University of Florida IFAS Lake watch for analysis and reports of lake water conditions for all four lakes. Additionally, BLPA maintains a healthy relationship with the Seminole County commissioners for the four lakes area. BLPA volunteers work closely with Seminole County storm water engineers and SJRWMD officials to insure the lake residents' concerns are conveyed to each governing body. Nancy Dunn and the volunteers for the Lake Watch program were honored at the annual meeting this past spring with UF/IFAS in Seminole County. Continued efforts are carried out to include the new personnel within the Seminole County storm water division and SJRWMD. The annual community BBQ dinner was held in February 2025. Many new lake residents were in attendance and appreciated the efforts of all the lake watch volunteers. Discussions to place Triploid grass carp into Bear Lake for hydrilla control were started and a target date for Fall 2025 was decided on.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 65.8%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -77.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.9; rating input score 90; 90th 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: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 65.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.