Mississippi Recreation & Park Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 640741623
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2010–2024
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024
Location: Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Phone: 6015823361
Rating: 54
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $64,079
Expenses: $62,615
Assets: $121,711
Liabilities: $0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

COURTNEY NUNN (PRESIDENT)
CHANDRA FONTENOT (PAST PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

SETH GAINES (MEMBER AT LARGE)
COURTNEY NUNN (PRESIDENT)
CHANDRA FONTENOT (PAST PRESIDENT)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Preserve and promote parks & recreation

What it reported doing in 2024

Mrpa holds an annual convention for its members. Convention provides education to keep members informed of changes in the field

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 37
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 57
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 37.4%; rating input score 37
Program expense ratio: 38.2%; rating input score 38

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 37.4% of revenue deployed · 38.2% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2024
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.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.