Community Sustainability Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352031033
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Goshen, IN, USA
- Phone
- 5745334747
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,652
- Expenses
- $73,220
- Assets
- $75,084
- Liabilities
- $6,615
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAGDALENA LEHMAN (President)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL DICKENS (VICE PRES/SEC)
- ALEX MCINTYRE (Director)
- DIRK WOLFER (Treasurer)
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 organization's mission is to educate the general public about and promote healthy sustainable communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Vender space is created for local producers to display and sell their produce and other creations to the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27% of revenue deployed · 28.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.