Clifton Park Trustees

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
340154388
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lakewood, OH, USA
Phone
2165216078
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$511,625
Expenses
$570,677
Assets
$100,153
Liabilities
$3,164

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • NANCY GRAVES (SECRETARY/TR): $14,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To operate and maintain properties under a trust deed, including the clifton beach property and a beach house, located in lakewood, Ohio.

What it reported doing in 2025

Operation of clifton beach and beach house including property repairs, maintenance, security, utilities, insurance and other property-enhancing activities. A very special facet of clifton park centers on the property that is owned by a trust created in 1912 for the benefit of the clifton park lot owners. That property includes clifton beach, beach road (running down the hill, along the beach and around clifton lagoon), the triangular parcels at the lake road entrance to the park and in front of the clifton club, banks park, property next to sloane subway and a lane between west clifton and forest roads and a lane leading to stairs to the beach. The 1912 clifton park trust deed directed the trustees to hold title to and preserve all of the land deeded to them and establish regulations for the use of the property. It provided that the trust be administered by five residents of clifton park. These individuals, constituting the clifton park board of trustees, are charged with the responsibility of maintaining the trust property and are authorized to obtain the monies necessary from an annual assessment on all park lot owners. The trustees serve without compensation for life, unless they resign or move out of the park.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.