Friends of Panthertown Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273758868
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Cashiers, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8282694453
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,694
- Expenses
- $211,166
- Assets
- $60,727
- Liabilities
- $2,676
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- JASON KIMENKER (EXECUTIVE DI)
- MARGARET CARTON (BOARD MEMBER)
- NANCY WEST (BOARD 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The oragnization's primary exempt purpose is forest conservation, trail maintenance and public land stewardship. The mission of friends of panthertown is to work in partnership with the us forest service to conserve panthertown as a backcountry natural resource and to enable sustainable recreation
What it reported doing in 2024
Maintain and improve approximately 30 miles of public non-motorized multi use trails serving more than 60,000 visitors annually
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $174K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.