Brewster Ponds Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472359878
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Brewster, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4133202679
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,001
- Expenses
- $99,784
- Assets
- $260,483
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Bridges (President / Treasurer)
- John Keith (Vice President / President)
People named in this filing
- Susan Bridges (President / Treasurer)
- John Keith (Vice President / President)
- Robert Condon (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Brewster Ponds Coalition is dedicated to preserving the natural beauty, healthy habitats, and recreational opportunities of Brewster's ponds and to safeguard them for future generations. The Brewster Ponds Coalition serves to educate, advocate, restore and help secure funding to fulfill this mission. The Brewster Ponds Coalition also work closely with other environmental organizations, neighborhood associations and the Town of Brewster.
What it reported doing in 2025
Citizens Science Research Program - Involved cyanobacteria monitoring by 55 volunteers testing 20 ponds from May 28 to Oct. 31; collected over 275 samples for analysis, delivered timely results to the Town of Brewster BOH and BPC subscribers, and posted results on the BPC website. Also 3rd year working with the Cape Cod Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Assoc. (NOAA) on a remote sensing study which compares water clarity from samples drawn by BPC volunteers with satellite imagery taken from space.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 39.8%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.61; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.2% of revenue deployed · 39.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.