Margret and Ha Rey Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223863524
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Waterville Valley, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6032363308
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,321
- Expenses
- $170,396
- Assets
- $157,447
- Liabilities
- $47,109
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- NADJA STRATTON (MEMBER)
- PAUL RUGGIERO (MEMBER)
- LEAH ELLIOT (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
The rey center provides programs that celebrate curiosity and discovery by providing an opportunity for regional residents and visitors to learn about and experience art, science, and nature. Through programs (such as lectures, literary discussion groups, and art workshops, art gallery exhibits featuring local and regional artists, nature exploration programs, community gardens and astronomy nights) participants gain knowledge and first hand experience with the lovable antics of rey's creation, curious george, as an inspiration. The rey center youth programs provide an opportunity for children and families to discover nature and the arts through outdoor exploration and activities. Programs such as family astronomy nights, arts and nature camps, curious george story time, and nature explorations provide an enjoyable experience while developing life-long love for the arts and the natural world.
What it reported doing in 2025
The summer nature camp program provides early childhood education to children in the community and engages them with nature. The camp served 40 children in 2025.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 61.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 53.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.