Pocketparks

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 861627313
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone: 6365560565
Rating: 41
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Parks and Playgrounds

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $11,822
Expenses: $30,201
Assets: $10,482
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Samantha Smugala (President)
Sarah Arknosky Ko (Vice President)

People named in this filing

Samantha Smugala (President)
Sarah Arknosky Ko (Vice President)
Katie Holtgrave (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

Recreational Development

What it reported doing in 2025

Pocketparks contributed to 6 different projects and 4 permanent parks (including The DUC Park, 2 Acre Park, West End Park, and Ratio Park).

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

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: 24
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: -155.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th 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: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -63% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -54.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th 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 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.