Mohawk Valley Stewardship Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263910738
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Clio, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5306267774
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,138
- Expenses
- $36,894
- Assets
- $1,882,204
- Liabilities
- $136
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN MARTINEZ (President)
- DEBRA DUDLEY (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- JAN TEW (Director): $4,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Connecting people with their natural and cultural heritage and providing a community gathering place through restoration and operation of the White Sulphur Springs Ranch"Goals1)To acquire, restore, operate and sustain the White Sulphur Springs Ranch and it's natural and cultural resources while creating functional facilities conducive to public use and use by the disabled.2)To promote healthy lifestyles, connect people with nature, and cultivate community engagement through providing a community gathering place, recreation and environmental education center at the White Sulphur Springs Ranch. 3)To promote citizen stewardship of the Mohawk Valley region through community involvement, leveraging resources and increasing capacity for the benefit of current and future generations.
What it reported doing in 2024
White Sulfur Springs Ranch Living history School days: The program provides both a natural history environment and a living history opportunity given the remaining structures on the ranch property. The program had its debut in 2012 when almost 50 3rd grade students from C.R. Carmichael Elementary School in Portola were bused to the ranch where they participated in hands-on activities learning about life on the ranch in 1858. Students learned about blacksmithing and how important that skill was in maintaining ranch property. They also performed laundry activities, engaged in leather repairs, built wooden fruit boxes, played games, learned about native americans that lived in the Mohawk Valley in the 1800's and learned about the environment on the ranch that is still rich today.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 51.02; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.