Friends of Francis Park
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452640671
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3143518571
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,316
- Expenses
- $84,251
- Assets
- $138,705
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS M BYRNE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THOMAS M BYRNE (PRESIDENT)
- JUDY MURPHY (TREASURER)
- JONI OTT (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
Francis park is owned by the city of st. Louis, which has limited funds to maintain the park. A group of city residents got together and formed friends of francis park (fofp), a 501(c)(3) corporation, to preserve, improve, support and promote our neighborhood park and to help fund and implement improvements in francis park. Fofp works closely with the neighborhood association, our alderperson and the city parks department. Fofp is funded through private contributions and the net proceeds from the annual run for the hills, foot golf event, and art in the park. It has no paid employees. The city parks department as well as our 2nd ward alderperson have been included in all of our discussions about proposed improvements or fund raising activities in the park and must approve any improvements or activities proposed by fofp before they are implemented or scheduled.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fofp is funded through private contributions, grants and neighborhood events. As in prior years, due to limitations on city resources, fofp, along with other neighborhood organizations, funded some grass cutting for the park as well as costs to remove and clean up dead trees in the park. Fofp also funded restoration of the park's handball courts; a winter clean up of the native garden area; park maintenance, landscape work, and trees/flowers for the park; maintenance of the david r. Francis statue area; and maintenance and clean up of the park's beautiful and iconic lily pond. The st. Louis hills special business district provided funding for the handball courts' restoration. In 2025, fofp promoted the park through its annual run for the hills, foot golf, and art in the park events. These events were held in the park and were attended, cumulatively, by thousands of people. In 2018, fofp completed the campaign for a statue of david r. Francis, for whom the park is named and who donated the land for francis park to the city of st. Louis on christmas eve 1916. Additionally, in 2018, the statue was installed, dedicated and donated to the city of st. Louis. Thereafter, fofp continues to maintain the area surrounding the statue.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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.