Sunnyside Cemetery Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 396091185
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lannon, WI, USA
- Phone
- 2629454980
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Cemeteries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $279,323
- Expenses
- $188,481
- Assets
- $1,571,945
- Liabilities
- $1,016,860
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christine Lutze (President)
- Matt Mentzer (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Amy Martin (Trustee/Sexton): $36,967 total reported compensation
- Sean Gissal (Secretary/Treasurer): $13,300 total reported compensation
- Christine Lutze (President): $4,937 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sale of lots and perpetual care of cemetery
What it reported doing in 2025
Cemetery lot sales and perpetual care of property
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 40%; rating input score 40; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.34; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.