Mount Sequoyah
Legal name: Mount Sequoyah Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710268583
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fayetteville, AR, USA
- Phone
- 479.443.4531
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,254,377
- Expenses
- $2,040,121
- Assets
- $1,940,311
- Liabilities
- $821,539
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY GENTRY (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- EMILY GENTRY (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $81,120 total reported compensation
- ANITA PARISI (TRUSTEE): $26,023 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mount Sequoyah is a historic gathering space dedicated to artistic expression, personal growth, and connection to nature—an open and welcoming nonprofit community that celebrates people, land, and spirit. The lighted cross at Mount Sequoyah remains on many top lists of free places to see in Fayetteville, AR. Whether you want to catch the sunset, watch the city wake up, or enjoy the night lights dotting the landscape, Mount Sequoyah cross provides a wonderful location to find peace and quiet not far from the downtown Fayetteville area. Mount Sequoyah Cross - Skyline Drive, Fayetteville, AR Mount Sequoyah A place for all. Our Vision Mount Sequoyah Cross The lighted cross at Mount Sequoyah remains on many top lists of free places to see in Fayetteville, AR. Whether you want to catch the sunset, watch the city wake up, or enjoy the night lights dotting the landscape, Mount Sequoyah cross...
What it reported doing in 2024
Through camp sequoyah, we provide day camp activities for children ages 5 - 12. There is one session in the spring, 7 in the summer, and one at thanksgiving. We serve around 50 children each day for spring break and thanksging camps and about 120 children each week for summer sessions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 9.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.