Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916067924
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Maple Valley, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2532935103
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,520
- Expenses
- $133,339
- Assets
- $244,256
- Liabilities
- $18,985
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristin Haapasaari (President)
- Ron Groepper (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Susan Goodell (Director): $38,807 total reported compensation
- Todd Tschimperle (Grounds Maintenance): $29,837 total reported compensation
- Shaunna G Kipling (Grounds Maintenance): $5,047 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Develop enhance and maintain 40 acres of public land to provide a setting where the can enjoy study nature and to cultivate an ecosystem.
What it reported doing in 2025
Garden enhancements nursery improvements metal art animals fencing & miscellaneous
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 65% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 and most voting board members are independent. 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.9%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 18
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 3rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.9% of revenue deployed · 18.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $39K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 44 current checks pass · 10 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX DepreciationDepletion column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX InformationTechnology column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Occupancy column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.