Friends of the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275237781
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Westfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4135792890
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,731
- Expenses
- $10,197
- Assets
- $64,525
- Liabilities
- $605
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carmel Steger (President)
People named in this filing
- John Tassinari (Treasurer)
- Carmel Steger (President)
- Chris Steger (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
To blaze new trails for a bicycle and pedestrian friendly westfield, to promote healthy and active lifestyle, to create a sense of community and connectedness, to support a vibrant and creative local economy, and to provide equitable access to safe, viable and active alternative transportation routes in westfield.
What it reported doing in 2025
Achieve design and construction of the columbia greenway rail trail and encourage shared maintenance of the publicly owned trail to lessendens of local government.
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
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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 15
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.33; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed · 14.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.