Blue Earth Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911682270
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2065698754
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,484
Expenses
$78,962
Assets
$15,634
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Conor Risch (President)

People named in this filing

  • Conor Risch (President)
  • Juliana Lavorini (Secretary)
  • Andrew Duke (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Blue Earth Alliance is to support visual storytelling on critical environmental and social issues through direct assistance to photographers and a collaborative community of professionals.

What it reported doing in 2023

Blue Earth Alliance (BEA) is an organization to help photographers and filmmakers who are creating projects about critical environmental and social issues.. BEA provides sponsored project creatives with fiscal agency, grant writing support, public relations and media outreach, advice, and mentorship throughout the life of the project.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -28.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.