Higgins Lake Land Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113812984
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Higgins Lake, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8105777965
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,533
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Don Mick (Pres/Secretary)
- Greg Douglas (Treasurer)
- Dale McDonald (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
Acquire and otherwise manage conservation of lands within the watershed of Higgins Lake
What it reported doing in 2025
Monitor lake qualitiy, Conservation of water level structures
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.8%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.8% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 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 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.