White Mountains Interpretive Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222603114
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Conway, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6034525148
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,847
- Expenses
- $56,548
- Assets
- $156,095
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT SMITH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KENNETH RANCOURT (TREASURER)
- ROBERT SMITH (PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN BLUM (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
Education resource for white mountain national forest.
What it reported doing in 2025
The wmia promotes and funds historic, scientific, educational, and interpretive programs on the white mountain national forest (wmnf). The wmia conducts workshops and classes, provides educational materials, books, newsletters, wmnf forest trail parking passes, and maps to the general public and wmnf visitors, promotes conservation efforts, and funds interpretive programs at wmnf historic sites in order to educate and engage visitors with the goal of making them active stewards of the national forest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.76; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 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 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.