Fosters Pond Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042747896
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Andover, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9784752135
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,717
- Expenses
- $15,164
- Assets
- $253,718
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen E Cotton (President)
- Martin Rabinowitz (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Stephen E Cotton (President)
- David W Brown (Treasurer)
- Michele Scavongelli (Secretary/Clerk)
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.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community Building: We seek to build a sense of community among residents who live on the Pond, neighbors in Andover and Wilmington who frequent the Pond, and visitors from further away who come to explore this iconic resource. Our program of community building has two components: in-person public events and web-based public information. The aim is to inform the wider community about the ecology and the history of the Pond, what it takes to preserve its fragile ecosystem, and the opportunities for public access. The web site includes such information as our ground-breaking Watershed-Based Plan for reducing nutrient-laden storm run-off throughout the 1.5-square-mile Foster's Pond watershed. The web site also provides a guide to the Pond, describing each of the public reservations, complete with pictures, maps, and directions to public parking. The site is routinely updated to reflect FPC activities and provide notice of upcoming weed treatments, community events, and Pond-related news.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.1%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.73; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.1% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.