Government Hill Commons
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814425303
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9072274376
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,858
- Expenses
- $25,165
- Assets
- $7,851
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Gerlek (Vice President)
- Jody Sola (President)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Kesler (Treasurer)
- Steve Gerlek (Vice President)
- Nancy B King (Board Member)
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
Government Hill Commons, an Alaska nonprofit corporation, ("GHC") is a community organization that was formed to cultivate, nurture, and enhance public spaces in the Government Hill neighborhood in Anchorage, Alaska. GHC was created on July 19, 2016. The central goal of the organization is to develop and maintain a public space, which will be known as the Government Hill Commons (the "Commons"). Initial plans for the Commons include planting a community orchard and making garden beds available for use by locals. There are additional plans to include art projects and a gathering space. The Commons are intended to be a focal point of the neighborhood, uniting the east and west portions of the community and serving as a gateway to people entering Government Hill.
What it reported doing in 2025
2019 was another good year at the Commons. Our orchard is now just about complete - we have almost 100 fruit trees in the ground and the warm summer led to and surprisingly robust harvest from our young trees. We also harvested several gallons of honey from our bee hive. In terms of art, our children's mural was an outstanding success. We also received donations for an espalier which is located in the middle of the orchard. We had several children's events that were coordinated with the neighboring elementary school. All in all, a very good year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 53
- 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: 15.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 24; 24th 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: -66.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.