Friends of Buffalo Dunes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471592733
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Garden City, KS, USA
- Phone
- 6202758084
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,800
- Expenses
- $63,060
- Assets
- $144,614
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LONA DUVALL (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- LONA DUVALL (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- KENDALL S KEPLEY (TREASURER/DIRECTOR)
- ROSS O MILLER (SECRETARY/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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Friends of buffalo dunes, inc. Was organized to effectuate improvements and assist in the maintenance and beautification of buffalo dunes golf course, a municipal golf course owned by the city of garden city, Kansas, with the intention of enhancing the golf experience for residents and visitors and lessening the burden on the municipal government as it relates to operating expenses. The general purpose is to operate solely and exclusively as a charitable organization.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support and maintenance of buffalo dunes golf course.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
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: -50.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2015 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 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.