Friends of Herring Run Parks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462321951
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4104178565
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,240
- Expenses
- $75,815
- Assets
- $121,071
- Liabilities
- $3,162
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Misty Fae (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Misty Fae (Executive Director)
- Laura Gillis (Pres, Board of Directors)
- Amanda Cunningham (Treasurer, Board of Directors)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To restore, protect and promote the Herring Run stream valley as a place where nature and neighbors thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Stewardship & Restoration
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - 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: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.4%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.4% of revenue deployed · 23.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.