Environmental Community Action Inc

Overview

Mission

Environmental community action (eco-act): at eco-action, we believe that communities have the right to clean air, land and water and should have a right to participate in the decisions that affect their own lives. Incredibly, many communities still do not have that right today. Those affected most by toxic chemical exposure are people who live in low-income communities and communities of color. We believe that people who work collectively to organize, make change, share resources, and solve problems will make a positive impact on their community's health, environment, and prosperity.

What it reported doing in 2022

Awln adult: atlanta watershed learning network's purpose is to increase community capacity for engagement with parks and green infrastructure as community assets that will: address flooding and stormwater issues; employ residents; provide opportunities for improved health, recreation and education; and protect the watershed. Awln youth: awln youth summer program is a six-week summer program that provides youth with a paid internship. Through our internship program, youth have the opportunity to receive hands-on experience at a community, social justice, or green organization. Our youth interns are provided with soft skills, environmental, sustainability, leadership, finance, and nutrition-based training that allow them to be more efficient at their work sites and at home. Community soil air and water (csaw): the community-soil-air-water (csaw) learning ecosystem aims to integrate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and programming with community collaborations to solve socio-environmental problems. This integration seeks to diversify both practitioners and practices in the geosciences that can catalyze a transformation in understanding who does geoscience and what geosciences does for communities. Georgia grassroots environmental network (ggen): Georgia grassroots environmental network program seeks to bring community liaisons and residents together to discuss issues and agree on Georgia environmental justice priorities including the demand for a Georgia environmental justice policy. While all communities are encouraged to participate, the program targets communities outside of the metro-atlanta area. In addition to meeting quarterly as an entire group, communities are clustered by shared environmental health challenges and encouraged to strategize and act collectively. Metro-atlanta clean air initiative (macai): eco-action, working in partnership with emory university and other nonprofit organizations, will install air monitoring equipment, collect air samples, share sample data and train residents in five communities so they can advance their advocacy efforts to address longstanding air quality problems where they live. With eco-action's assistance, communities will advance their efforts to advocate for the resolution of air pollutant issues using air quality monitors that collect pollutant concentration data. The duration of the metro-atlanta clean air initiative (macai) will be 30 months. Proposed program activities are: pollutant monitoring, mobilizing community training sessions, and data sharing. Resilience, equity, and adaptation for climate and health (reach) atlanta: in partnership with emory university, spellman, and the west alliance watershed alliance, eco-action aims to understand how the cumulative exposures of chemical and non-chemical pollutants impact of impact and exacerbate the health of individuals within the most vulnerable communities in atlanta. The focus will be for individuals with increased vulnerability/risk to pre-existing chronic health conditions such as asthma, mental health problems, and obesity-sensitive conditions (obesity, diabetes, and hypertension).

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% 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.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581854834
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2022
Headquarters
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
4045896499
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Pollution Abatement and Control Services

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 26
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $691K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • CARLA LEWIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $86,875 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2022.