Otsego 2000 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112654945
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cooperstown, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6075478881
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $448,659
- Expenses
- $456,857
- Assets
- $607,013
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELINOR VINCENT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES DALTON (PRESIDENT)
- ELLEN POPE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELLEN POPE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $82,249 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Otsego 2000 celebrates, protects, and enhances the environmental, agricultural, cultural, scenic, and historic significance of the greater otsego lake region. As a 'first responder' on environmental, sustainability, and community issues that affect the region's quality of life, otsego 2000 endeavors to ensure healthy environmental and economic futures for present and coming generations through informed advocacy, public education, innovative projects, and ideas for economic advancement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Environmental defense and stewardship: otsego 2000's work in environmental defense and stewardship embodies its role of first responder for the region whenever an environmental threat emerges. Thus, eds program priorities are generally dictated by outside factors and are reactive to the extent that, as soon as a possible threat to the region's air, water, lands or the otsego lake viewshed is perceived, otsego 2000 conducts the necessary research to determine the extent of the threat and how best to combat it. Through research, public outreach, participation in the public project planning process and education of elected officials and voters, otsego 2000 applies all its resources to ensure that the otsego lake region is protected.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.1% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $321K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.