Friends of Woodland Park Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273769838
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7135427388
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,157
- Expenses
- $29,050
- Assets
- $31,617
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kelli Fereday (President and Director)
- Becky Houston (Former President and Advisory Director)
- Beth Fischer (Vice President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Kelli Fereday (President and Director)
- Louise Moss (Secretary and Director)
- Becky Houston (Former President and Advisory 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 preserve and improve this historic Houston, TX public park (second oldest in the entire city established in 1903) and to affect educational opportunities for all who visit and enjoy the park.
What it reported doing in 2025
This year we continued to work with Boy and Girl Scout troops on beautification projects in the park including BSA Eagle award service projects including the construction of a land bridge for the hiking trail and for the removal of tires from the bayou. Several clean up events were supported by scout troops in the community and included the scouts, their leaders, parents, friends, and volunteers. and several were performed by corporate work groups seeking to contribute to the community. The number of people participating in these events totaled over 350 but the benefits derived affected thousands (all those who visited the park during the year.) We sponsored several new community concerts and held our annual free community picnic which we refer to as "Happy Trails and Hot Dogs". We purchased several reusable event materials. We had our annual insurance, PO Box and website maintenance expenses. We also sponsored elementary school children's field day in the park as well as after school enrichment programs in the park community building. A decorative split rail fence (section one over 300ft) was fund raised for and constructed bordering the nature 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 50
- Growth: 40
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: 0.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 50; 50th 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: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.