Earthworks Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464214018
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5858618127
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,579
- Expenses
- $143,870
- Assets
- $29,955
- Liabilities
- $4,941
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DJ Kitzel (Vice President)
- Lindsay Cray (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Meredith Rutherford (Chair)
- DJ Kitzel (Vice President)
- William J Reddy (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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Earthworks Institute strives to improve the quality of life for residents of the Greater Rochester area by providing education and mentoring programs that teach invaluable life-skills and social responsibility, while at the same time building healthy, lasting bonds between land and community.
What it reported doing in 2017
Nature Workshops: Our unique survival skills and nature workshops challenge groups and individuals to experience a world where your senses are key and nature knows best for survival. All programs are held at green space locations in and around the Greater Rochester Area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 61.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 68.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.