Earth Care New Mexico
Legal name: Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331017279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, US
- Phone
- 5059836896
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $754,049
- Expenses
- $947,795
- Assets
- $1,185,595
- Liabilities
- $401,931
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JORGE GONZALES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MIGUEL ACOSTA (CO-DIRECTOR): $75,422 total reported compensation
- BIANCA SOPOCI-BELKNAP (CO-DIRECTOR): $40,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Earth Care is an empowerment and community development organization. We grow grassroots leadership from the ground up by training and supporting youth and parent leaders who organize campaigns to build a healthy, just, and sustainable world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organizing, training & leadership development: - the poder family leadership collaborative facilitates and builds family leadership in public and community education including building leadership capacity for family engagement in schools, in creating transformation educational experiences for youth and families, and working with schools and the district to create equitable and just learning environments. Workshops are held throughout the year. - plaza comunitaria is the center of basic education that earth care/poder familiar offers to the community in santa fe with the vision of equipping spanish speakers to access better opportunities. - abriendo puertas / opening doors is an evidence-based program created by and for latino parents with children ages 0-5. It also provides resources for parents with older children, sharing positive parenting experiences and strategies. This course, apart from being for parents, is also for people who work with children, grandparents, uncles, brothers, godmothers and neighbors who are part of the upbringing of a child. - the el puente summer leadership academy is available to santa fe & area youth 14-25 years old offering a one week of leadership training, community building, friendship-making, and problem-solving. - the la milpa comunitaria project is a family food justice project that began with a small garden and conversations with community members to talk about the problem of access to healthy food by the migrant community on the southside of the city of santa fe. The project has flourished into a larger program that includes the design and creation of the la milpa community gardens at earth cares offices in addition to family workshops that includes a group of families that come together to discuss topics related with the way our food habits have change due to the production and preparation of food and food justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- 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: 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $785K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.