Emerald Keepers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842582954
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Coronado, CA, US
- Phone
- (619) 535-7152
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,203
- Expenses
- $97,254
- Assets
- $256,452
- Liabilities
- $755
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Steward (President)
People named in this filing
- Amy Steward (President)
- Sharon Raffer (Secretary)
- Kali Lindsay (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Emerald Keepers’ mission is to educate the community to develop and celebrate more sustainable practices and strive to be a model city for the health of our oceans, our beach community, and the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
CHS Intern Program: Organized and ran an internship for high school students in collaboration with the local high school. Interns acquire transferable skills for success by working on passion projects to reduce waste and make our city more sustainable, teaching younger students about environmental issues, speaking in public forums including at school assemblies and in front of City Council. Interns volunteer at community outreach events to educate the public about sustainability practices and build community relationships. Interns maintain gardens on school grounds, learn about growing crops and composting, donate food to a local food pantry, and teach other students about their work in the garden.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.6%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 62.8%; rating input score 63
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: 44.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.64; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 77.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 20 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 34.6% of revenue deployed · 62.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.