Friends of St Joseph Bay Preserves Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731664447
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Port Saint Joe, FL, USA
Phone
8502291787
Rating
40
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Land Resources Conservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,198
Expenses
$16,499
Assets
$92,087
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

  • Richard Trahan (President)

People named in this filing

  • Richard Trahan (President)
  • Tania Williamson (Secretary)
  • Roland Burnett (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

Friends of St. Joseph Bay Preserves, Inc., is a Citizen Support Organization with the purpose of promoting the goals of the managers of the St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve by volunteering for specific tasks and by raising funds for improvements to the Preserve. The semiannual fundraiser, Bay Day, includes educational exhibits which raise awareness of the Preserves and help the community around St. Joseph Bay learn about the importance of keeping the bay clean.

What it reported doing in 2025

Part III, line 29, The support organization spent a considerable amount of money in preparation for its two semiannual fundraisers called Bay Days. A "Low Country Boil" lunch is served and a donation for the lunch is requested; so purchase of food, drinks, and serving ware are the largest expenses each time. Amost all of the work of cooking and serving food, setting up information booths to educate visitors about local nature and nature-focused organizations, presenting free, guided tours of the Preserve, and arranging parking is performed by volunteers. Educating people who live around the St. Joseph Bay about the importance of pristine water is a goal of the St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - 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: 79
  • Growth: 60

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: 37%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.58; rating input score 85; 85th 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: -61% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.