Earth Sangha
Overview
Mission
Conservation, ecological restoration, and helping people develop healthier connections to the lands and waters around them.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tree Bank: The Tree Bank program in the Dominican Republic operates a community tree nursery and associated forest-conservation and tree-planting programs on the Dominican side of a portion of the Dominican Republic - Haiti Border, to slow deforestation and help small-holder farmers increase their incomes. During 2024, about 67 farms participated. Program activities produced and planted about 22,206 orchard, timber, and local-ecotype native tree seedlings; 8 native species were represented, all of them probably in decline in the wild, our forest credit program, in which our local independent partner organization (the asociacion de productores de bosque, los cerezos) extends low-cost credit to small-holder farmers in exchange for pledges. To conserve forest - that credit program lent about $34,700 to 54 farms, in exchange for pledges covering about 353 acres of forest. (The pledges are held by our Dominican partner organization.)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541868546
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Headquarters
- Annandale, VA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.35; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $574K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 13 annual filings from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.