Friends of Lord Stirling Stable
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222512100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Basking Ridge, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9087665955
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,500
- Expenses
- $6,080
- Assets
- $35,472
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- SUE TRAPP (VP)
- BARBARA HUBER (PRES)
- CAROL WEINGAERTNER (SECY)
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
To promote and support and supplement the education and recreational programs of lord stirling park riding stable (part of the somerset county park commission), and to educate the general public to the benefits and facilities available at lord stirling park riding stable and the somerset county park commission , to educate the general public on outdoor recreation including walking, hiking , birding and horseback riding, to carry out any and all activities in furtherance of the above purpose.
What it reported doing in 2025
Retired horse maintenance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.6%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.83; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -34% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.6% of revenue deployed · 6.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $420 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.