Green Education Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262522164
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Walpole, MA, USA
Phone
5086682278
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Expenses
$209
Assets
$964

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VICTORIA WATERS (PRESIDENT &)

People named in this filing

  • VICTORIA WATERS (PRESIDENT &)
  • GARY YOHE (DIRECTOR)
  • WALT COOPER (DIRECTOR)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide sustainability education , curriculum and resources to k-12 students and teachers nationwide in an effort to promote and instill new habits of enviromental stewardship.

What it reported doing in 2024

National green week is an annual event that empowers schools to engage in sustainability focused lessons, projects or activities between the first full week in february and the end of earth month (april). Participating disctricts, schools, classrooms or youth groups choose a week, then select from gef's sustainability focused programs (green energy challenge, green building program, sustainable water challenge and green thumb challenge) to be their "green theme". Each theme provides five day standards-based lessons sets, activities, recomended reading, sustainability tips, contests, and more over 10,000 schools and 5 milliion students participate annually in the largest sustainability education program running

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: NotEnoughData
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.61; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -45.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -42.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 1 of 2 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.