Center for Ecological Consciousness

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874794031
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location
Shelton, WA, USA
Phone
3604325500
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,313
Expenses
$31,188
Assets
$17,123
Liabilities
$1

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAUL STAMETS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TAD BUCHANAN (DIRECTOR)
  • STEVE CIVADANES (DIRECTOR)
  • STEVE SHEPPARD (DIRECTOR)

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

To engage primarily in the direct conduct of agricultural research in collaboration with Washington state university through a research collaboration agreement.

What it reported doing in 2025

The center for ecological consciousness (cec) is a multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists and students who will gather at select field stations across the globe to cross-train each other in their specialties while conducting specific research activities. Nature is complex. Species cross-talk to each other, and we need a better understanding of these communications. Many scientists' activities are focused and isolated into silos of expertise. By bringing scientists together, the intersection of their disciplines can lead to collaborative breakthroughs. These relations could save ecosystems, foster stronger economies, and protect our common future. All 2025 activites were dedicated to the establishment of the cec, obtaining federal tax exempt status and executing the research collaboration agreement with the Washington state university.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -61.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -121.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.