Anderson Valley Education Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680436870
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Boonville, CA, USA
Phone
7076846568
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$121,773
Expenses
$117,446
Assets
$333,056
Liabilities
$229

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dick Browning (Vice President)
  • Linnea Totten (President)

People named in this filing

  • Natalie Lopez (Student Rep)
  • Dick Browning (Vice President)
  • Gail Gester (Board member)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Charitable education

What it reported doing in 2024

Awarded grants to fund a wide variety of activities including a trip for 12 high school students to Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a 3-day trip to the Mendocino Woodlands for an outdoor educational experience for sixth graders. Other trips included one for 8 high school students to a donkey sanctuary, to Tahoe for a snow adventure, and 6 students to Indianapolis for the FFA National convention. Grants were also awarded for the purchase of microscopes for first graders and binoculars for third graders to enhance their science studies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 96.6%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.84; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 96.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.