Friends of the Rockefeller State Park Preserve
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582295320
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9147620209
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $358,984
- Expenses
- $135,851
- Assets
- $841,124
- Liabilities
- $14,113
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEORGE GUMINA (President)
- EVELYN HADAD (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- GEORGE GUMINA (President)
- BENJAMIN CHEEVER (Director)
- BRIAN GEARY (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The friends of rockefeller state park preserve (frspp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works with the rockefeller state park preserve and the New York state office of parks, recreation & historic preservation to protect and maintain the rockefeller state park.
What it reported doing in 2024
Trail maintenance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.5%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.19; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.5% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 1 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 28/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.