Gentle World Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591999433
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kapaau, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8088845551
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,636
- Expenses
- $32,902
- Assets
- $746,601
- Liabilities
- $20,673
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BURTON WALDBAUM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BURTON WALDBAUM (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER GIBSON (SECRETARY)
- KEVIN WEIL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To alleviate human and animal suffering through vegan education, including publishing books, articles, and an email newsletter; maintaining a website and social media presence; demonstrating plant-based food preparation (see schedule o for complete mission)
What it reported doing in 2024
Gentle world continued to serve as a clearinghouse of vegan information, both for the general public, and for other educators, including individuals developing resources for raising vegan children, and groups pioneering vegan outreach in africa. As well as developing new content for our educational website, we provided specialized plant-based food aid supplies to an organization helping victims of flooding in North Carolina, and charitable assistance to various non-profit groups focused on animal rescue, vegan education, and veganic gardening. Gentle world volunteers continued our program of vegan event catering, as well as providing free meals and consultations to anyone seeking guidance with transitioning to a healthy, plant-based way of life. Our veganic demonstration gardens provided nutritious produce to local individuals, including food-insecure families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.69; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.