Environmental Federation of North Carolina Inc Dba Earthshare Nc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561775025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9196874840
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $703,042
- Expenses
- $666,518
- Assets
- $556,707
- Liabilities
- $627,062
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HEATHER BEARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- HEATHER BEARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $102,103 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Earthshare nc inspires and provides opportunities for individuals and corporations to actively participate in work for healthy and sustainable communities across nc alongside our nonprofit members. Together we strengthen the impact nonprofit members can make for clean air and water, healthy places to live, and safe food to eat, here in nc, nationally, and globally.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nc climate week transforms knowledge into implementation through action-focused sessions that equip individuals and businesses with immediately deployable solutions to reduce greenhouse gases, build resilience in our communities, and live sustainably. Four days of virtual learning and consultation are followed by the summit brings together climate leaders from across North Carolina for one focused day to accelerate collaboration. This is where we turn conversations into expanding networks and cross-sector partnerships that drive measurable impact on climate and resilience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 23.2%; rating input score 23; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.13; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $570K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 31 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.