Capital Roots Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141596291
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Troy, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5182748685
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Botanical Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,168,836
- Expenses
- $3,785,420
- Assets
- $12,035,127
- Liabilities
- $5,696,757
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM HICKOK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANOUSH KOROGHLIAN SCOTT (PRESIDENT)
- AMY KLEIN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY KLEIN (CEO): $112,306 total reported compensation
- JESSICA TROWBRIDGE (COO): $76,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Capital roots, inc. Is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. It is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self sufficiency, healthy living, community engagement, thriving green cities and neighborhoods, and responsible stewardship of our natural and build resources. Capital roots, inc. Is dedicated to working with people to cultivate healthy enviroments, diets and lifestyles as demonstrated through the missions and activites of its various programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Programs empower local residents to develop their communities and improve the environment and their quality of life by transforming vacant lots into productive neighborhood garden spaces for beautification and food production. The programs foster environmental and urban renewal by assisting and supporting urban beautification projects, including landscaping, tree planting and educational assistance in techniques for gardening and horticulture to residents and the community. Programs bring affordable produce to low income families with nutritional education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.18; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.