Association of Compost Producers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330749177
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Santa Maria, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7607415195
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,416
- Expenses
- $92,665
- Assets
- $20,394
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHY KELLOGG-JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEFF ZIEGENBEIN (PRESIDENT)
- KATHERINE FORSYTH (BOARD MEMBER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DAN NOBLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- KATHY KELLOGG-JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LEO BECKERMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- CINDY LILES (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Business league of compost producers
What it reported doing in 2025
Business league of compost producers who provide a forum for compost producers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.3%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 46.2%; rating input score 46
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: 15.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.3% of revenue deployed · 46.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.