Lititz Run Watershed Alliance Cpld
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232943479
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lititz, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7176268900
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,940
- Expenses
- $52,763
- Assets
- $31,048
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- W Logan Myers (Chairman)
- Daniel L Zimmerman (Vice Chairman)
- Brian Harris (Secretary)
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
Improve the quality of life within the Community by developing and implementing a Comprehensive Plan for the Lititz Run Watershed. This endeavor will focus the community on improving its water quality through a comprehensive long-term watershed management strategy. The strategy combines techniques in natural resource management, land use planning and education. The Lititz Run Watershed Alliance (LRWA) is committed to the protection, sound management and enhancement of the Lititz Run Watershed. The LRWA shall accomplish these aims by raising public awareness, natural resource conservation, land use planning techniques, education and community involvement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual water shed day for the Warwick School District educating the 5th grade students on stream chemistry and health, native plants as well as local wildlife and fish. As well as stream health monitoring for the School District students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 35; 35th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: -113.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.