Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541640944
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Keene, NH, USA
Phone
6033577411
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,798
Expenses
$104,536
Assets
$197,827

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NICOLE SEYMOUR (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • AMY HAMILTON (CO-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • NICOLE SEYMOUR (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • AMY HAMILTON (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • CRISTIN ELLIS (VICE PRESIDE)

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

Asle seeks to inspire and promote intellectual and creative work in the environmental humanities and arts. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability.

What it reported doing in 2024

Publications and online content: isle journal: isle: interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment is the official journal of asle, published quarterly in a digital format. Distribution is primarily to asle members (est. 1000) and institutional subscribers such as libraries via our publisher oxford university press (oup). In addition, oup has a large free access program for developing countries. Isle content is peer reviewed, and includes both scholarly articles in ecocriticism and creative works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, as well as book reviews. Asle news: the association produces a variety of articles on the activities of our organization and our members every year. We compile them in a quarterly e-newsletter, which is sent to members and subscribers (approx. 4800 in total) via constant contact; stories are posted at the website on the asle news, as well as featured teaching and research pages. Asle website: the association's website (www.asle.org) aims to be a rich resource in the burgeoning field of environmental humanities. There are articles on innovative teaching models, featured research on projects or ideas across a broad range of arts and sciences, scholar of the month, a teaching resources database, directory of schools with programs focused in the environmental humanities, links and connections to various online journals and portals, and introductory articles and materials on the field. Member publications are posted to the member bookshelf. Asle ecocast: once a month, hosts interview a guest or guests on a current topic and their work in the field of environmental humanities. The series is hosted on podbean, and available on apple podcasts and spotify.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 65.3%; rating input score 65

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -51.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 64; 64th 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: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.