Crooked Forest Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883611193
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Silver City, NM, USA
- Phone
- 2079759442
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,887
- Expenses
- $25,706
- Assets
- $270,154
- Liabilities
- $90,049
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH KENNEDY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH KENNEDY (PRESIDENT)
- HOLLY NOONAN (ACTING EXEC)
- KIM RYAN (SECRETARY)
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
We design, build and propagate resiliency neighborhoods for low-income and sensitive people in a way that leads to home ownership, food sovereignty, vibrant health and liberation from environmental and economic injustice.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 the organization: - finished construction of 120 square foot protype cabin, - completed a 6-month organizational audit with prospera partners, a consultancy agency for social enterprise nonprofits. This involved completing a strategic plan, refining core values, and establishiong our board onboarding process, - completed a draft business plan and identified an economic development comnsultant to assist in preparing the plan for presentation to potential investors, - our executive director, holly noonan, became a fellow in lincoln institute for land policy's "vibrant communities fellowship- and presnted our organization's project to the institute's santa fe accelerated community investment lab, - attended the housing summit in albuquerque, nm in september, - we launched our community application, - we created a grant writing schedule with our grant writing team, - participated in give grandly, the mimbres harvest festival and presented at the tranquil buzz, - engaged with New Mexico finance authority and the drinking water state revolving loan fund and gained experience applying for funds with state agencies, - the casas adobes mutual domestic water consumers board voted to conduct a feasibility study to assess what would be required for our project to connect to their water utility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -790.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.51; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -194.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.