Ecological Landscape Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043172542
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Boylston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7742029062
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,530
- Expenses
- $251,469
- Assets
- $107,844
- Liabilities
- $13,307
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- LAUREN ANDERSON-PIRKLE (DIRECTOR (LEFT IN 2025))
- IRENE BRADY BARBER (DIRECTOR)
- SANDRA NAM-CIOFFI (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate, inspire, and empower people to value biodiverse landscapes and employ ecological practices.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through the spirit of inquiry and learning, we seek toconserve and improve the health of our living landscapes.we promote ecologically sound landscape practices based inscience, research, and cultural knowledge. We build alliances to extendour community and to amplify our impact. With intention and equity, we commit to facilitating diverse perspectives, solutions, andexperiences. We honor the beauty and value of natural systems, ecological design, and ecological practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -115.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 24.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.