Durand-hedden House & Garden Association of Maplewood Nj
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222333666
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Maplewood, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9737637712
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,208
- Expenses
- $161,603
- Assets
- $400,208
- Liabilities
- $632
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GAIL SAFIAN (PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN NEWBERRY (TRUSTEE; PRESIDENT EMERITA)
People named in this filing
- GAIL SAFIAN (PRESIDENT)
- PATRICIA CHRISMAN (CO-RECORDING SECRETARY)
- CLAIRE STEWART (CO-RECORDING 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
Conservation & education
What it reported doing in 2025
Maintain, develop and improve lands & buildings known as durand-hedden park for recreation, conservation and educational purposes including restoration and preservation of murals and the maintenance of archives at the robert h. Grasmere local history center.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.48; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.