Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452621438
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ohkay Owingeh, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5183323156
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,801
- Expenses
- $47,150
- Assets
- $47,341
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lorraine Gray (Executive Director)
- Daniel Mapp (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Lorraine Gray (Executive Director)
- Daniel Mapp (Board President)
- Lauren Hefti Mapp (Secretary/)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Traditional agriculture & sustainable living training. Community support of food, seeds, and clothing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational Programs on our farm in Santa Cruz, NM - to maintain a working family farm in the permaculture model to offer training to individuals, families, and organizations to inspire them to return to traditions and healthier lifestyles. A part of this program includes the Sacred Gardens Project and virtual learning. We continue to maintain our YouTube Channel and are developing a new Podcast called "Seedy Stories".
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.6%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.6% of revenue deployed · 24.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.