Mill River Wetland Committee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060859820
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fairfield, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2032759759
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,773
- Expenses
- $96,492
- Assets
- $211,498
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN DILLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JONATHAN DILLEY (PRESIDENT)
- MINDY POWLISHEN (TREASURER)
- KIERSTEN CHOU (RECORDING SE)
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
Operating since 1966, mill river wetland committee (mrwc), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, is to educate the community of the value of watersheds, to advocate for their continued protection, and to engage the community to protect our environment. Though the award-winning river-lab program, mrwc provides an educational experience for up to 3,500 students, annually, as well as adults throughout fairfield.
What it reported doing in 2025
Comprehensive river-lab volunteers guide training continually develop, publish, and promote river-llab progrm and community outreach
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 56/100.