Community Forestry International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770533914
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Gasquet, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9257062906
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $883
- Expenses
- $302,686
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK POFFENBERGER PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK POFFENBERGER PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $110,256 total reported compensation
- KATHRYN SMITH-HANSSEN PHD (ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR): $88,882 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community forestry international, inc. (cfi) assists rural communities to stabilize and regenerate forests by helping policy makers, development agencies, ngos, and professional foresters create the legal instruments, human resource capacities, and negotiation processes and methods to support resident resource managers. At cfi, we believe that including local communities in the management of natural resources leads to increased livelihood security and poverty alleviation that, in turn, encourages greater sustainable development. Cfi enables community forest management strategies to become an integral part of sustainable forest management world-wide. Cfi programs are implemented through four interrelated thematic areas: 1) regional and national policy dialogues, 2) mediation processes and methods, 3) participatory research and field programs, and 4) communication.
What it reported doing in 2014
To assist rural communities to regenerate forests by helping to support resident resource managers; to publicize research materials demonstrating the benefits of regenerating forests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 48.7%; rating input score 49
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34,179.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 65.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 48.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2009 to 2014
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.