Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271948414
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Wamego, KS, USA
Phone
7852214061
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Parks and Playgrounds

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,765
Expenses
$66,765
Assets
$89,256
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Stubbs (President)
  • John Hund (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Stubbs (President)
  • John Hund (Vice President)
  • Christy Crenshaw (Secretary-Treasurer)

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 mission of the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards is to preserve, promote and protect the cultural heritage of the Northern Flint Hills of Kansas.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Prairie Guards were busy in our 20 Anniversary Year. On June 21 we held an event to dedicate the Park's new main entrance and celebrate 20 years of developing and expanding the Park. 100 friends, neighbors and dignitaries braved the heat to mark the occasion. Captain Mitchell's great grandson cut a ribbon across the park's ADA trail to the swale of the Old Topeka Ft. Riley Road.Other accomplishments include replacement of the Park's Captain Mitchell/Beecher Colony Monument destroyed by vandals in 2024, renovation of all park benches and picnic tables, expansion of our trail network, new interpretive and directional signage, and a permanent Park entrance sign installed at the new main entrance on Mount Mitchell Road.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.