Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850326927
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5053431373
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,320
- Expenses
- $86,968
- Assets
- $332,629
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Greta Roskom (President)
- Christine Small (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Greta Roskom (President)
- Christine Small (Vice President)
- Patty Phillips (Secretary)
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 mission of the Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center is to support the Nature Center's mission to preserve and protect the Rio Grande Bosque, to educate the public about Rio Grande ecosystems, and to foster positive human interactions with those systems. The Friends organization provides both financial and volunteer assistance to the Park to achieve the mission. The Friends provided 10,550 volunteer hours to assist in educational programs including approximately 200 guided classes for over 4,000 groups of students. Financial support for the Park activities include revenue from Friends memberships, donations and Nature Shop income. Nature Center visitors total over 140,000 per year
What it reported doing in 2024
Volunteer support of about 130 volunteers provided approximately 11,000 hours for public education to foster human interactions in the Rio Grande plant and environment ecosystem. Volunteers with extensive hands-on training in this ecosystem, support all Park activities including youth and adult educational programs. In addition, volunteers manage and maintain the Nature Shop, front desk, FRGNC office, two gardens, restoration efforts, bird and nature walks, new volunteer training, and also participate in greeting over 140,000 visitors per year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.7%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.82; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.7% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.