Friends of Anderson Park
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141975087
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Montclair, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9734959056
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,373
- Expenses
- $27,296
- Assets
- $20,388
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT KEVELSON (PRESIDENT/EX)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT KEVELSON (PRESIDENT/EX)
- ANDREA SCHRAGER (TREASURER/TR)
- ADAM GRACE (SECRETARY/TR)
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
Friends of anderson park is a non-profit conservancy dedicated to the thoughtful stewardship of anderson park, montclair, nj and to fostering its historic, natural and environmental qualities. Our primary mission is to protect the spirit and integrity of the park's olmsted-designed landscape and rehabilitate and maintain its pastoral ambience.
What it reported doing in 2025
Throughout the year - planted 18 trees and 23 shrubs. April 25 - arbor day celebration, planted 3 trees with girl scouts. May 4 - celebrate winners of the anderson park short-story contest during a reading of their stories at the bellevue avenue branch of the montclair public library. May/june - mentored three montclair high school interns for six weeks. June 7 - presented the free "music under the june moon" chamber music concert in the park, attended by about 500 people. June 8 - installed and dedicated the olmsted oak bench's installation with a celebratory event with live music, puppet show, local officials and refreshments. Sept. 20-21 - information tent and raffle at the fine arts & crafts fair in the park. Oct. 25 - led olmsted historic walking tour of anderson park, attended by about 50 people. Nov. 1 - planted 500 daffodil bulbs in the park. Nov. 20 - fap historian presented the slide show "edgemont park war memorial at 100: its story and symbolism" through the montclair history center's history at home series, viewed by about 65 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 40; 40th 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: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.