Stark Memory Garden Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454223843
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Perrysburg, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4194102496
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,455
- Expenses
- $63,163
- Assets
- $434,424
- 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
- ALICE BUEHRLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- REBECCA JAESSING (BOARD MEMBER)
- SUE WYNN (BOARD MEMBER)
- TIM POLAKOWSKI (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
The foundation's mission is to promote and maintain the garden and labyrinth as a sanctuary for peace, prayer, meditation and healing.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides a labyrinth and garden that is designed to be a sanctuary for peace, prayer, meditation, and healing. It is open to the public and is for everyone to enjoy and use.
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 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 67.2%; rating input score 67
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: -4.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.88; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -40.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 67.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.