Bennington Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202906009
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Bennington, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4025782407
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,668
- Expenses
- $62,030
- Assets
- $230,720
- Liabilities
- $13,172
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMOTHY CLARK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TIMOTHY CLARK (PRESIDENT)
- JEREMY HAVEKOST (TREASURER)
- DALENE CLARK (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The mission is to build strategic relationships to support community betterment and facilitate economic development by being stewards of philanthropic gifts.
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote philanthropy to fund charitable programs and organizations serving the bennington community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -151.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -39.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.8% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.