Ecoamerica

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203895611
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2024571900
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,003,187
Expenses
$3,332,936
Assets
$4,257,734
Liabilities
$362,147

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

31 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MEIGHEN SPEISER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • ROBERT PERKOWITZ (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MEIGHEN SPEISER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $265,032 total reported compensation
  • DIRK KINCANNON (VP AND CHIEF ADMINISTRATION): $196,929 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER GIORDANO (VP MARKETING): $180,352 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Ecoamerica moves society toward climate solutions by engaging and supporting trusted national institutions to inspire and empower their millions of members in local communities across america to visibly act and advocate for ambitious, just climate mitigation, resilience, and restoration.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ecoamerica's program activities consist of the following five main components:1. Ecoamerica engages trusted national leaders outside of typical environmental spheres from the faith, health, and local communities' sectors. These leaders convene quarterly, share ideas and learning, and guide and support ecoamerica's programs.2. The organization recruits and supports major national institutions in its target sectors and helps them make climate change a visible national priority for their organizations, engaging their millions of members to act and advocate for climate solutions.3. It provides these institutions, leaders and members with (see schedule o for cont.) comprehensive, tailored guidance, resources, training, and other support to help them lead on climate solutions and inspire their stakeholders and others to do the same.4. Ecoamerica organizes summits, forums, webinars, workshops, campaigns, annual awards, and other events designed to inspire action, share best practices and build independent and collective action for climate solutions.5. Finally, ecoamerica conducts and shares values, communications and messaging research and polling to help its partners and the climate movement understand which americans are ready to move on climate and how best to reach them and inspire action.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 86.4%; rating input score 86; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 22 of 24 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $265K · 31 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 13 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.