Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Legal name: Dancing Rabbit Land Tr Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431787201
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Rutledge, MO, USA
- Phone
- 6608835511
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Real Estate Associations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,801
- Expenses
- $56,097
- Assets
- $843,345
- Liabilities
- $247,600
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Pugh (President)
People named in this filing
- Ed Pultz (Director)
- Brenda Van Gelder (Treasurer)
- Zach Rubin (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create a sustainable society—made up of individuals and communities of various sizes and social structures—by living sustainably and influencing the global community through example, education, and research. Dancing Rabbit Mission Statement To create a society, the size of a small town or village, made up of individuals and communities of various sizes and social structures, which allows and encourages its members to live sustainably. To encourage this sustainable society to grow to have the size and recognition necessary to have an influence on the global community by example, education, and research. Dancing Rabbit Mission Statement Dancing Rabbit Mission Statement To create a society, the size of a small town or village, made up of individuals and communities of various sizes and social structures, which allows and encourages its members to live sustainably.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization maintains and improves land and buildings while it leases land to members so they can carry out program services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.03; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.