Deep Forest Field School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262218555
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4043751881
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $3,472
- Assets
- $4,628
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeremy F Dahl (President)
People named in this filing
- Jeremy F Dahl (President)
- Gordon Eilen (Director)
- Tom Panton (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is forest conservation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sustainability Program (supported by Donations): Paideia School. Consultations with Paideia School on forest management as an educational opportunity while controlling invasive species. 50 hours, time donated. [Cost: a portion of office expenses].Machete Man: [Suspended this year due to illness of Jeremy Dahl]Education and Research Program. Efforts to sustain both temperate and tropical forests continued, and aiming to increase the publics attention to saving their unique inhabitants - gliding mammals. Applying aerodynamic principles we made life size, three dimensional models of:1. Twenty species of modern glider from nine genera including the Dermoptera (Colugos) - most closely related to Primates as a possible ancestral form.2. Seven genera of modern primates and six fossil species constructed with hypothetical wing membranes;3. Two species of modern Megachiroptera, (Pteropus) and a fossil bat, Archaeopteropus transiens.Models were made in up to six configurations (planiforms) for each taxon. Their aerodynamic characteristics (span, chord, aspect ratio, and load) were measured. Analyses show that the most effective forms of aerial locomotion include parachuting, paragliding, and while soaring. The hypothetical models of all but two of the Primates would have been capable of flight. Developing appropriate scaling methods for volant mammals ranging from .01 kg to 2.75 kg is ongoing.895 hours of work donated. [Cost: a portion of office expenses].
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.