Center for Amazon Community Ecology
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743156891
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Lemoyne, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8143801959
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,646
- Expenses
- $109,297
- Assets
- $141,467
- Liabilities
- $8,681
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAMPBELL PLOWDEN (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL GILMORE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAMPBELL PLOWDEN (PRESIDENT)
- ROBIN VAN LOON (SECRETARY)
- MICHAEL GILMORE (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Conduct scientific, educational and charitable activities related to human and other biological communities in the amazon forest.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community support: support health, education, conservation, and sustainablelivelihoods in communities.bought suppliesfor palm trees reforestationand childbirth equipment for health posts and paid for sme emergency medical
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 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
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.