Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593815364
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7186241395
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173
- Expenses
- $300
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDITH FRANCIS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JUDITH FRANCIS (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT STONE (TREASURER)
- LINDA DEROSA (VICE PRES)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and develop parkland for the borough of brooklyn
What it reported doing in 2018
Since inception, in addition to fund raising for our legal actions, the fund and its officers have addressed community groups, leafletted at street fairs and set up meetings with local elected officials and the press. All of this was done to educate the public about our vision of the brooklyn bridge park.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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: 82
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -73.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.