Friends of Stevens Creek Trail
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770334262
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cupertino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082555780
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,620
- Expenses
- $63,237
- Assets
- $252,313
- Liabilities
- $24,396
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT WALKER (President)
- JIM MEYERSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT WALKER (President)
- GARTH WILLIAMS (Treasurer)
- JIM MEYERSON (Vice President)
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
Raise public awareness of the trail
What it reported doing in 2024
We maintain and update our website regularly to provide useful information to the public.we continue to work on a critical aspect of our mission - closing the gaps that exist in the trail. The friends of stevens creek trail took the lead in identifying potential alignments where gaps in the trail exist today. In a few instances where the land was under private ownership, the friends worked with the owners for future extensions to run through their property and even organized volunteer events to develop dirt tracks there. The extensions from stevens creek boulevard to varian park and from linda vista park to the county park, all in cupertino, are two examples.we do not collect funds to direct them to trail maintenance or development. That's the domain of the cities and jurisdictions that own the creeks and the trails. We do outreach and advocacy which leads to community support, which in turn leads to decisions furthering the cause of the wildlife corridor and the trails.the development efforts complement the cleanups and de-weeding, all of which make our volunteering program even more well-rounded.under the signage program, tremendous progress was made to unify the stevens creek trail which runs through multiple cities and jurisdictions. The medallion, designed, developed and produced by the friends has been installed in all trail segments. The new signage has not replaced the city specific signs which will continue. The installation work, carried out by the friends in most locations, was preceded by a multi-year effort to forge agreements with all parties along the trail to have common signage.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.6%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 41.4%; rating input score 41
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: 35.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.99; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.6% of revenue deployed · 41.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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 27/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.