E-tech International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611458602
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5056701337
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,800
- Expenses
- $165,466
- Assets
- $110,269
- Liabilities
- $495
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD KAMP (PRESIDENT/EX)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD KAMP (PRESIDENT/EX)
- DENISE HUMPHREYS BEBBINGTON (SECRETARY)
- LAURA SILVAN (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
E-tech provides sound defensible, technical, scientific engineering advice and capacity building to communities in developing countries experiencing actual or potential adverse environmental impacts from large-scale extractive and other industrial projects. Many of the communities e-tech serves are indigenous and confronted by formidable multinational mining and energy sector companies. E-tech aims to have positive effects on protecting biodiversity, traditional practices, and ecological health. Historically, a connection between protecting biodiversity, conserving terrestrial landscapes as carbon sinks and the rights of the indigenous communities to a sustainable and healthy environment has not been adequately considered. E-tech believes that indigenous communities are best suited to protect local biodiversity. The residents of these remote areas with proper training, tools, and resources coupled with their traditional local knowledge can become effective stewards. Moreover, the model
What it reported doing in 2025
E-tech continued the development and implementation of oil remediation strategies under an indigenous-national government agreement in the loreto, peru amazon basin including monitoring, training and field oversight of actual crude oil cleanup on behalf of indigenous federations. At the request of indigenous federations, e-tech coordinated with the peruvian government a new multi-decade long program to train community members to be employed in remediation and rehabilitation of their territory. E-tech continued the promotion of best large-scale mining practices at several mines in ecuador and continued focusing on the chinese mirador copper mine and further technical analysis of mine-tailing stability at that mine including ongoing representation of indigenous communities in ecuador in the state of zamora, chinchipe. E-tech worked with researchers and communties to develop further social and technical evaluation of watershed protection for communities on the rio sonora, mexico, downstream of the grupo mexico cananea mine and with the mexican government to apply best practices and audits to the mine. E-tech began working with a german-based technical policy group, lingo, in evaluating environmental impacts of cross-border exploitation of oil, natural gas, and development of a complex of lng storage and shipping facilities in the sea of cortez. We also worked with various stakeholders on the Arizona-sonora border to evaluate long term practical collaborations for environmental projects.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.