Friends of Mianus River Park Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273949212
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Stamford, CT, USA
Phone
2033274998
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,315
Expenses
$2,863
Assets
$60,947
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary Ellen Burns (President treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Mary Ellen Burns (President treasurer)
  • Erin McKenna (Director)
  • Linda Chapman (asst. Treasurer director)

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 purpose of the Corporation is to bring together and educate park users, and to work to maintain the park in its natural state by creating sustainable trails, closing unsustainable trails, reversing the erosion on the riverbank, and making appropriate plantings, while removing invasive species The park is open to the general public all year and is located in the city of Stamford and the town of Greenwich. The park is used by hikers, dog walkers, fisherman and bikers. With Covid 19, the number of users has essentially doubled. Fundamentally, the only thing we spend money on is the plantings, tools for the work, fencing and riverbank restoration. A small amount of money goes to the administration expenses such as a web site, and a po box and. In 2021, with the help of Aquarian Water Company, a high school group and a boy scout troop, we installed 800 more feet of post and rail fencing. We also installed new signage throughout the park to guide the users.

What it reported doing in 2025

Installed approximately 2,500 feet of new fencing to keep users on the trails, conducted numerous hikes and clean up days and worked with various user groups to install boardwalks, benches and platforms. Also invested time and funds into getting rid of invasives and doing plantings around entrance to park.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 85.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.29; rating input score 96; 96th 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: -73.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.