Experience Nature Unplugged
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862733101
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Encinitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4844338110
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $153,394
- Expenses
- $173,606
- Assets
- $26,835
- Liabilities
- $47,860
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SONYA MOHAMED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MAVERICK BOLGER (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SONYA MOHAMED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $54,250 total reported compensation
- SEBASTIAN SLOVIN (DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS): $51,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire wellness in the digital age. To accomplish our mission, we empower community leaders to promote preventative mental health solutions through unique educational programming: the nature unplugged advocate program and the nature unplugged educator program.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educational trainings and workshops, community events and hikes, annual fundraiser (hike-a-thon).
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
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 51%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.78; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 58.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58% of revenue deployed · 51% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.