Friends of Harrison Park Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824674688
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Ellijay, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4044082983
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,914
- Expenses
- $49,556
- Assets
- $73,290
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda Lancaster (Executive Director)
- Michael Lancaster (President)
People named in this filing
- Linda Lancaster (Executive Director)
- Michael Lancaster (President)
- John Oudin (Treasurer)
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
The friends of Harrison Park Inc exists to provide private support to a small public nature park in Ellijay Georgia Friends of Harrison Park creates sponsors and presents free or low-cost events at Harrison Park as well as provides private funding for capital improvements at the Park Examples of the former are our Scarecrow Invasion and Heritage Day events while examples of the latter are our Leaf-A-Legacy program for new trees in the Park establishment and maintenance of the wildflower meadow installation of a new public water fountain rehabilitation of the 100-year-old barn and volunteer programs for park maintenance
What it reported doing in 2025
The Leaf-A-Legacy program initiated by the Friends of Harrison Park planted 28 new species trees in the Park in 2025 Each tree was purchased by a park member or friend and donated in honor of a family member friend or beloved pet The Friends of Harrison Park conceived of the project raised the funds managed the plantings and is now caring for the trees until they are self-sufficient
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 98% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.4%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 56.1%; rating input score 56
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: 2.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 58; 58th 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: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.4% of revenue deployed · 56.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.