Goatapelli Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861402336
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wellington, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9702190451
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,480
- Expenses
- $94,214
- Assets
- $73,076
- Liabilities
- $59,250
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lani Malmberg (Board President)
- Donald Benz (Board Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Lani Malmberg (Board President)
- Donald Benz (Board Vice-President)
- Jennifer Balch (Board 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
Education, Training, Support and Career opportunities to anyone interest in reconnecting with our living landscape, using grazing animals as living tools to restore abused land/soil/watershed health and consequently, survival and vitality of our culture. Goatapelli provides remote and classroom learning opportunities to develop skills of land rstoration practitioners, beyond production agriculture. Our curriculum consists of regenerative agriculture concepts, principles, and dynamic hands-on experiences delivered by qualified instructors who weave skillful wisdom, knowledge and proven track record of success in applying these principles in unfamiliar, erratic, fast-changing, atmospheric conditions that we are facing. Goatapelli works at all educational levels to offer timely inforamtion in classes that may be coordinated with accredited agencies. Goatapelli promotes governmental policy changes to match new grass roots land management methods while working with glabal allies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education, Training, Support and Career opportunities to anyone interest in reconnecting with our living landscape, using grazing animals as living tools to restore abused land/soil/watershed health and consequently, survival and vitality of our culture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -14.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -43.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.