Center for Ecological Teaching and Learning
Legal name: Center for Ecological Teaching DBA CETL
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843232950
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Edmunds Township, ME, US
- Phone
- 6052093931
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,284
- Expenses
- $35,537
- Assets
- $459,059
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Coleen O'Connell (Vice President)
- Anne Lewenberg (President)
People named in this filing
- Martha Harney (Secretary)
- Coleen O'Connell (Vice President)
- Anne Lewenberg (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Center for Ecological Teaching and Learning conserves and stewards 70 coastal acres in Downeast Maine while immersing learners in regional and global ecological education.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Conservation of Land and Educational services for adults and children in the study of ecology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.9%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.92; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 17.9% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.