Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority
Legal name: Ogdensburg Border Station Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020629295
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2018
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Ogdensburg, NY, USA
- Phone
- 315-393-4080
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Real Estate Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,263,857
- Expenses
- $516,753
- Assets
- $6,068,549
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WADE A DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WADE A DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $161,760 total reported compensation
- JAMES SMITH (C.F.O.): $112,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
While remaining self-sustaining, the Authority creates sound economic business development through the promotion of buildings, river, road, rail, and air transportation. This is accomplished by providing exceptional customer service, safe and secure facilities, responsible environmental stewardship, and focused professionalism.
What it reported doing in 2018
The ogdensburg border station, inc. Was created for the purposes of constructing, operating, and maintaining a new border station building to be leased to the united states general services administration. Construction of the building was financed by the issuance of bonds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.74; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $517K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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
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Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.