Amethyst Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521746302
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New Buffalo, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7174764512
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,079
- Expenses
- $58,273
- Assets
- $179,304
- Liabilities
- $60,192
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joshua Ebersole (President)
- John Wenner (President)
- Renee Andrews (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Joshua Ebersole (President)
- John Wenner (President)
- Zoe Miner (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
Health and Wellness Education
What it reported doing in 2025
Wilderness Camp for Children 10-16 outdoor skills, crafts with natural materials, tracking animals, and nature observation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.8%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 29.7%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.08; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.8% of revenue deployed · 29.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.