The Lake Waramaug Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 066178754
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- New Preston, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8608687732
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,953
- Expenses
- $55,674
- Assets
- $369,925
- Liabilities
- $3,048
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA MOSTAJO (PRESIDENT)
- STACEY LENDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KAREE HANIFAN (SECRETARY)
- CHRIS SPRING (DIRECTOR)
- ALAN LEVANDE (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lake waramaug association is a membership organization whose mission is to preserve lake waramaug and its environs as a public recreational area and to promote the safety, health and enjoyment of those who use the lake.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public fireworks display and community outreach to promote recreational use and appreciation of the lake
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.3%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.64; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.