Friends of Big Creekakabig Creek Connects

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611606049
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2166617706
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,557
Expenses
$47,742
Assets
$18,925
Liabilities
$50

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BOB GARDIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • BOB GARDIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MARY ELLEN STASEK (CHAIRWOMAN)
  • STACY STAUB (DIRECTOR)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To conserve, enhance, and bring recognition to the natural and historic resources in and around the big creek watershed and develop a recreational trail network that connects these resources to each other and the community.

What it reported doing in 2023

See attached sheet for decriptionto develop a greenway-trail through the lower big creek vally in cleveland and through the city of brooklyn. It also includes organizing and co-chairing the biennial greater cleveland trails & greenways conference - held in 2022, and the development of the cleveland land bridge/westshoreway concept alternative - completed in 2022.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79

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: -42.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2023
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.