Earthviews Conservation Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920604860
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062359286
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,719
- Expenses
- $92,175
- Assets
- $27,383
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Brian Footen (Director/Expedition Lead)
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
EarthViews Conservation Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of waterways. We use advanced mapping and data technology to document threatened aquatic ecosystems, advocate for their protection, and predict environmental risks. Our work supports scientists, policymakers, and communities through free and publicly available 360 degree imagery, water quality data, and geospatial mapping tools. We also engage the public through citizen science, education, and community outreach.
What it reported doing in 2025
EcoTrackrs Citizen Science Temperature Monitoring for Puget Sound EarthViews Conservation Society advanced EcoTrackrs, a citizen science initiative designed to strengthen Puget Sound environmental monitoring through volunteer kayaker participation and app-enabled field data collection. The program supports localized water temperature monitoring in nearshore and difficult to access aquatic areas where conventional sampling may be limited. Community-collected environmental data helps supplement regional temperature monitoring efforts, improve understanding of climate-related impacts on aquatic habitat conditions, and support long term conservation planning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
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: 12.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 82.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.