Earthdna Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825085444
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Marblehead, MA, USA
Phone
7812440034
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Physical & Earth Sciences,

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$901,635
Expenses
$761,090
Assets
$661,925
Liabilities
$5,035

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GUILLERMO TROTTI (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ELLEN BARRBERRY (DIRECTOR)
  • DAVA NEWMAN (TREASURER)
  • JOANNA PENA-BICKLEY (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Earth dna is working towards designing a healthy relationship between people, technology and earth to assure the sustainability of humanity and all living things on our home planet. We seek to inform, transform and accelerate actions from individuals to leaders at every level of society, government, small and medium enterprise, consumers and academia.

What it reported doing in 2025

The footwear collective catalysis progam provides funding to companies for executing projects that test hypotheses related to a circular economy in the footware industry. These projects focus on data collection and are carried out across three key areas: product infrastructure process, consumer behavior, and material supply chain innovation. Collectively, these initiatives support the mission of making the footwear industry more sustainable. The program covers a variety of expenses, including personnel hours, contracts with external partners for project execution, and data collection efforts. It is designed to share the financial burden in pursuit of a greater cause.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 75.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 50.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 58.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $730K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $142K reported
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.