Granite Dells Preservation Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273173609
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Prescott, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9284430321
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,880
- Expenses
- $14,069
- Assets
- $335,855
- Liabilities
- $633
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dottie Morris (President)
- Steve Munsell (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jeff Meyer (Board Member)
- Peter Sherman (Board Member)
- Ruth Anne Norris (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
The Granite Dells Preservation Foundation is a charitable nonprofit dedicated to the protection and interpretation of the ecosystems and iconic landscapes of the Granite Dells of Yavapai County, Arizona.The Granite Dells Preservation Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Granite Dells of Yavapai County, Arizona. The Foundation may undertake such activities as fund-raising, community education, enhancing the visitor experience in the Granite Dells.The Granite Dells Preservation Foundation is a non-political, non-partisan, non-profit Arizona corporation and shall refrain from actions on behalf of any political candidate or party, nor may its name be used for any partisan purpose.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 Program Accomplishments:**Successfully applied to the Arizona State Board of Historical and Geographical Names to designate a previously unnamed creek Elisabeth Creek to honor Elisabeth Ruffner**Continued our work in enhancing the visitor experience in the Dells.**Held a capacity crowd community education/fundraiser event, Dinner in the Dells, at the Ramada at Watson Lake** Participated in Earth Day as part of our community education mission** Opposed the widening of Highway 89 through the Narrows to protect the Dells** Sent out our annual year-end appeal to donors for donations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.8%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 25%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.87; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.8% of revenue deployed · 25% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.