Lakes & Parks Alliance of Minneapolis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471438451
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6129915694
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $7,165
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- STUART CHAZIN (DIRECTOR)
- CURT GUNSBURY (DIRECTOR)
- COURTNEY KIERNAT (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lakes & parks is a grass roots non-profit organization withthe mission of preserving the kenilworth trail. The southwest light rail transit threatens to destroy the trail and harm the surrounding lakes and park of minneapolis.
What it reported doing in 2022
Lakes & parks is gathering resources in the fight in federal court against co-locating freight and light rail in the kenilworth corridor. Lakes & parks does not question the importance of light rail in meeting the needs of a growing metropolitan area. Lpa questions co-location of the swlrt alongside the existing freight railroad and believes there are viable options that have been overlooked for political reasons.
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
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -66% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -64.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2022
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.