Friends of Garner
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311766834
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Concan, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8302325999
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,992
- Expenses
- $13,079
- Assets
- $190,690
- Liabilities
- $1,293
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ED MACK (Vice President)
- SCOTT DAVIS (President)
People named in this filing
- ED MACK (Vice President)
- MARY ANN ABBOTT (Secretary)
- TERRILL BERKSTRESSER (MEMBER)
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
Support park preservation
What it reported doing in 2025
Help maintain and preserve the historocial and educational purposes of garner state park for the over 500,000 visitors each year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.4%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 100%; 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: 65.6%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.58; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.