Boundless Playgrounds Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061512497
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2010
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010
- Location
- New Haven, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2038596626
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,427,353
- Expenses
- $1,740,732
- Assets
- $120,262
- Liabilities
- $845,051
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Boundless playgrounds is a national nonprofit that provides leadership to foster and create play environments for children of all abilities that promote a lifetime of tolerance and understanding.
What it reported doing in 2010
Assist communities to create universally accessable playgrounds where all children, with and without disabilities, can develop essential skills for life as they play and learn together.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.03; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.