Evergreen Inc Your North Brooklyn Business Exchange
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112647339
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7183887287
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,327,020
- Expenses
- $1,656,018
- Assets
- $11,409,053
- Liabilities
- $1,854,068
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE ROBLES JR (PRESIDENT)
- LEAH ARCHIBALD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LEAH ARCHIBALD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $151,285 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Evergreen inc. Is a membership organization that promotes the development retention of production, manufacturing and industrial service businesses thus improving neighborhoods in north brooklyn and surrounding communities by connecting (continue on schedule o) businesses with resources and opportunities to maximize their competitive advantage in the marketplace.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 evergreen staff served 192 individual businesses. Business clients looked to evergreen for a wide variety of services; the most frequently requested services by far and away was assistance navigating government. Evergreen assisted 42 businesses with government navigation on 64 different issues. Evergreen was able to help eight local firms apply for 19 different incentives. One hundred thirteen firms received one-on-one assistance from evergreen staff on more than 203 issues. Seventy-six firms sent 87 attendees to our informational workshops and multi-week seminars. Workshop and seminar topics included: creative entrepreneurship in the age of ai, getting savvy with quickbooks online, and developing a successful succession plan for your business.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -24.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.89; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.