The Dawes Arboretum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 314379601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2020
- Location
- Newark, OH, USA
- Phone
- 7403232355
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,354,860
- Expenses
- $7,748,502
- Assets
- $105,625,166
- Liabilities
- $394,987
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE CROCKATT (CEO (START 11/5/24))
Highest reported compensation
- KATHERINE CARTER (COO (TERM. 12/13)): $194,738 total reported compensation
- ERIN FLYNN (INTERIM VP OF ADVANCE. (TERM. 12/13)): $143,849 total reported compensation
- BEVERLY TELEPCHAK (SR DIR. OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION): $117,886 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The dawes arboretum is dedicated to enriching lives through the conservation of trees, nature and history. This includes but is not limited to sharing the love and knowledge of trees, nature and history through exhibits, programming events and community outreach.
What it reported doing in 2024
The dawes arboretum's learning and engagement department (l&e) instructs and engages daily with nearly 4,700 members, 96,423 visitors and the extended community. L&e offers nature education and exploration opportunities for adults and children through self-guided interpretive signage on grounds as well as professionally led programming and curricula focused on stem and the promotion of outdoor environmental learning.annually, camp dawes welcome over 3,516 school-aged children (5-14) from diverse backgrounds to safely observe and explore nature/ structured and self-guided curricula engages children in a variety of eco-systems, creates outdoor-inspired crafts with friends and cultivates a lifelong sense of curiosity and adventure as it related to our natural world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.63; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.