Buckeye Lake Fourth of July Celebration Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820586710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Buckeye Lake, OH, USA
- Phone
- 7404850581
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Commemorative Events
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,429
- Expenses
- $102,132
- Assets
- $186,694
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- ANN FORNATARO (CHAIR)
- DONNA HOLYCROSS (TREASURER)
- CASEY CLARK (SECRETARY)
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
To provide a celebration on the 4th of july each year in the form of fireworks etc. For buckeye lake region residents and tourists.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.2%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.2% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.