Chateaugay Lake Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260769453
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lyon Mountain, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2392488546
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,780
- Expenses
- $38,140
- Assets
- $169,135
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID KEMP (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY MCLEAN JOHNSON (VICE-PRESIDE)
- DAVID KEMP (PRESIDENT)
- THEODORE ELSASSER (DIRECTOR)
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
Environmental protection of chateaugay lake.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the chateaugay lake foundation (clf) managed control of invasive eurasian watermilfoil(milfoil) on chateaugay lake for an eighteenth season. The clf raised funds and hired dive crews to conduct two weeks of hand harvesting to remove the invasive aquatic plant under permits from regulatory agencies. In 2024, the clf had conducted a pilot treatment of eurasian watermifoil using herbicide. The treatment targeted one of the most heavily infested and highest-use boating lanes of the lake. The post-treatment survey found the invasive plant had been reduced from 61 percent to 2.4 percent occurrence. Based on the success of the treatment, the clf is pursuing a multi-year plan to treat infested areas of the lake using herbicide in combination with hand-harvesting to maintain control and extend the time between treatments. In 2025, control was limited to hand- harvesting with no herbicide treatment. The clf again installed seasonal hazard buoys to warn boaters away from dense milfoil beds. Volunteer monitoring of milfoil beds continued. Public awareness programs continued with mailings and digital outreach to inform the public of threats posed by invasive species and how to prevent their spread.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
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: 58.9%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.43; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.