Prairie Parks Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341844093
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Marion, OH, USA
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,881
- Expenses
- $7,178
- Assets
- $128,555
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER KNOTTS (BOARD MEMBER)
- DOMENIC MAROCCO (BOARD MEMBER)
- JANINE WILLIAMS (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To support marion county park districts
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide educational & safety signs maps for trail supplies for educational classes and mulch for playground
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.5%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.91; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -54.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -38.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.5% of revenue deployed · 23.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.