Golden Park Restorations Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853249938
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, GA, USA
- Phone
- 8048331518
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,660
- Expenses
- $16,170
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANDRA CROOP (CEO)
People named in this filing
- SANDRA CROOP (CEO)
- JEFFREY CROOP (CFO)
- SCOTT BRAND (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Golden park restoration, inc's mission is to amplify existing chattahoochee valley outreach programs through the revitalization of historic golden park. Gpr aims to benefit area organizations by offering outreach programs, as well as providing the landscape necessary for existing programs to host fundraisers. We intend to provide baseball instruction, opportunities for children to attend organized baseball games and interact with professional players and personnel. Throughout these activities gpr will work to refurbish area facilities for youth activities, in addition to providing financial support options to local 501(c)(3) organizations that are already effectively and efficiently serve the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Restore a historic ballpark to functionality and modernize while lessening the burden on the government and the community, provide a home for an organized baseball team, and provide a facility for non-sporting events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.4%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 90.2%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -68.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -67.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.4% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 8/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.