River Ranch Property Owners Assn Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592164728
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lake Wales, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8636929807
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fishing, Hunting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,950,385
- Expenses
- $2,067,795
- Assets
- $1,950,429
- Liabilities
- $280,399
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANDY EDWARDS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHANE BRADLEY (DIRECTOR)
- SANDY EDWARDS (PRESIDENT)
- CLIFF GOODRICH (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
River ranch property owners association, inc. Is a membership organization of property owners in the river ranch area. It provides recreational and social activities for its members and support for activities such as hunting and camping. It also helps preserve the natural woodlands, wetlands, and the animal life typical of the property owned by the members within the river ranch area.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operated recreational club for benefit of members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.