Cultiv8Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882240418
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sumner, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9407363008
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $575,992
- Expenses
- $495,104
- Assets
- $456,143
- Liabilities
- $29,158
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rob Spencer (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Rob Spencer (Chief Executive Officer): $150,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cultiv8Community is focused on habitat restoration, environmental education, affordable housing, and connecting people with nature, connect neighbors to neighbors, and restore life-giving habitats
What it reported doing in 2024
Cultiv8Habitat partners with local landowners to help reclaim their land as native pollinator habitats and/or adopt regenerative farming practices. Our efforts increase much-needed land for pollinators, help reconnect habitat patches for wildlife, and restore rural soil. We currently have active partnerships with rural landowners and the National Wildlife Federation. Culitv8Housing builds and/or restores high-efficiency, affordable homes and helps families experiencing poverty, who have never been homeowners, repair their credit, receive home ownership mentoring, and purchase homes with a $10-20,000 down payment assistance grant and no sweat-equity requirements. These homes help stabilize families and allow them to build generational wealth for the first time. Cultiv8Camp connects children primarily in rural areas with safe and fun experiences in nature. Cultiv8Camp is designed for students to embrace the outdoors as they learn about the ecology, land management, planting, and connecting with nature. Each field trip and day camp experience is designed to build on the previous years learning, encouraging schools and organizations to return annually. This progressive approach helps reinforce environmental education and fosters a deeper connection with nature over time. Cultiv8Respite provides no-cost, peaceful nature spaces for teachers, pastors, and community leaders to rest, recharge, and reconnect with themselves and the earth. Cultiv8Connections empowers rural leaders in North and Northeast Texas to identify community strengths and develop solutions to poverty and conservation challenges
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.2%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.2% of revenue deployed · 65.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $324K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.