Okoboji Protective Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421358811
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Okoboji, IA, USA
- Phone
- 7122608458
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,898
- Expenses
- $79,367
- Assets
- $243,666
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pete De Kock (President)
- Lori Eich (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Pete De Kock (President)
- Lori Eich (Vice President)
- Heidi Toale (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 Organization's goals are:1. To protect and monitor water quality, including the treat of invasive species.2 To preserve and protect the wetlands in the Iowa Great Lakes watershed.3. To participate in the control of lake development where a threat to the aquatic and shoreline environment exists.4. To promote sustainable urban and agricultural development to protect the ecological balance of the lake and its watershed.5. To inform the community and general public of ecological concerns of the Organization and courses of action to be taken.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants and expenditures to preserve, protect, and monitor water quality in the Iowa Great Lakes area and to inform the general public of our projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.07; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.