Athens Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320035073
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Athens, OH, USA
- Phone
- 7406628005
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $879,322
- Expenses
- $236,822
- Assets
- $6,488,691
- Liabilities
- $1,480
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONNA GOODMAN (PRESIDENT)
- CHRIS FAHL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DONNA GOODMAN (PRESIDENT)
- LINDA THORNTON (SECRETARY)
- CHRIS FAHL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Athens conservancy works locally to preserve land and promote healthy, resilient ecosystems. These efforts safeguard water quality, support native biodiversity, and protect mature forests, which are crit
What it reported doing in 2024
Stewardship activities to keep our preserves healthy and accessible to
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 94
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.8%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.1%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 27.4; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.8% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $237K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.