The Nature Park Environmental
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383707022
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Fort Myers, FL, USA
- Phone
- 2392468120
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,872
- Expenses
- $120,013
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- ROSIE TCHEKMEIAN (DIRECTOR)
- JON FINSTROM (VICE CHAIRMA)
- PAMELA J CRONIN (CHAIRMAN)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide an opportunity for the general public to experience and learn about different plants and wildlife found within the various ecosystems throughout the world. To offer individuals and groups a nature-based educational experience which will help create an awareness of the need for change and to enhance the knowledge to accept the crisis facing our environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide the public with an opportunity to experience and learn about different plants and wildlife found within various ecosystems of the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.3%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -288.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.3% of revenue deployed · 7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 27/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.