Cuyahoga Falls Partnership for Parks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472504471
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3309718225
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,142
- Expenses
- $23,926
- Assets
- $28,298
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA KLINE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DON WALTERS (BOARD MEMBER)
- ROSE DEBORD (TREASURER)
- THOMAS HAAG (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Develop, maintain, improve, expand, erect, enhance, support, preserve, fund, encourage and sustain public parks operated by the city of cuyahoga falls and its park and recreation board for the benefit of its users and the general public. In addition, the organization will aid, encourage and advise in the maintenance and operation recreational facilities and acquire, hold, improve, preserve, develop and restore the park and recreation board facilities and real estate for recreational purpose use by the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Develop, maintain, improve, expand, erect, enhance, support, preserve, fund, encourage and sustain public parks operated by the city of cuyahoga falls and its park and recreation board for the benefit of its users and the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
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: -39.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 52; 52nd 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: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.