Chestnut Ridge Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320296015
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Orchard Park, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168673140
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,477
- Expenses
- $16,817
- Assets
- $58,817
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gordon Panek (President)
People named in this filing
- Gordon Panek (President)
- William Thornton (Secretary)
- Elizabeth Cash (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization raises financial resources to execute various restoration and preservation capital projects at Chestnut Ridge Park in Erie County New York.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raise funds for various restoration and preservation projects at Chestnut Ridge Park completed during 2024
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.8%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 31.9%; rating input score 32
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: 46.6%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.5; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.8% of revenue deployed · 31.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.