Wheeler Recreation Area Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042309168
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Acton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9782632949
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,640
- Expenses
- $163,536
- Assets
- $148,161
- Liabilities
- $50,150
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAM PEASLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SAM PEASLEY (PRESIDENT)
- ARIEL FREY-VOGEL (TREASURER)
- CORRINA SALO (SECRETARY)
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
To manage the neighborhood pool that provides swim lessons and recreation swim to approximately 110 families.
What it reported doing in 2025
To operate a neighborhood pool which serves approximately 110 families. The pool provides swim lessons and recreational swim through the employment of certified personnel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $164K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.