Wyandotte County Parks Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 481140420
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9132994029
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Physical Fitness and Community Recreational Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,778
- Expenses
- $63,190
- Assets
- $197,245
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANA BYE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DANA BYE (PRESIDENT)
- JANE PHILBROOK (VICE PRESIDE)
- WILLIAM MILLER (TREASURER)
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 provide opportunities for individuals and organizations to improve the qualtiy of life through the support of parks and recreation services in wyandotte county, Kansas.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation seeks out grants and donors for support of parks and recreation through the parks and recreation department of the unified government of wyandotte county and Kansas city, Kansas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.3%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.12; rating input score 75; 75th 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: 41.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.