Southwick Land Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992131819
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Southwick, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4135390588
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,691
- Expenses
- $2,423
- Assets
- $3,431
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maryssa Cook-Obregon (President)
- David MacWilliams (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Maryssa Cook-Obregon (President)
- David MacWilliams (Vice President)
- Janis Prifti (Clerk)
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 Southwick Land Trust (SLT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and conservation of natural habitats and open spaces within the Southwick community. The organization's intent is to actively engage in acquiring, managing, and stewarding land parcels for the benefit of present and future generations. Our mission revolves around promoting environmental stewardship, fostering education about local ecosystems and wildlife protection, and enhancing the quality of life for residents through access to green spaces.
What it reported doing in 2025
We spent fiscal year 2025 (January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025) promoting our new organization through lecture events int the community on topics relating to local ecology and wildlife. In April 2025, we organized our second annual town-wide clean up event that engaged residents in roadside clean up and resulted in several hundred pounds of rubbish being picked up from the roadsides of Southwick, Massachusetts and also held an educational workshop on native plants and their benefits. In March, April, May, and September, we held free lecture events on mycology, eastern cougars, and safe foraging practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.8%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 57; 57th 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: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 80% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 181.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.8% of revenue deployed · 53.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 23/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.