Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271943806
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Stamford, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6072421260
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,331
- Expenses
- $57,578
- Assets
- $49,179
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERWIN KARL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERWIN KARL (PRESIDENT)
- BENJAMIN MURDOCK (VICE PRESIDE)
- ELIZABETH MURDOCK (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
Conservation, education and research
What it reported doing in 2025
Sense of place- 4 week day camp, 5 days were week for 12-15 local youth, which focuses on environmental education and stewardship
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 64.1%; rating input score 64
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 64.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.