Eco Theo Collective

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834286562
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
5127509962
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,498
Expenses
$19,413
Assets
$39,362

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Travis Helms (Executive Dir.)
  • Anya Backlund (Director)
  • Devon Abts (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

EcoTheo Collective exists to create community and opportunities for writers, artists, theologians, and ecologists to come together and make work that reflects on urgent and eternal questions of our relationship to nature, climate change, ecosystems, etc. as well as faith and spirituality.

What it reported doing in 2025

EcoTheo Collective (ETC) publishes an online and quarterly print magazine that enlivens conversations and commitments around ecology, spirituality, and art. The magazine costs on average $10,000 per year to publish and ship to approximately 300 readers. We anticipate these costs increasing as we grow our circulation and begin to compensate editors and contributors presently all voluntary.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44.6%; rating input score 45
  • Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 55.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44.6% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.