Green Planet Films Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861057806
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Pawcatuck, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8609415436
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,806
- Expenses
- $105,122
- Assets
- $24,337
- Liabilities
- $7,101
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ernest Gonzales (President)
People named in this filing
- Ernest Gonzales (President)
- Charles Buffum (Treasurer)
- Christopher Donahue (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
Green Planet Films (GPF) advocates environmental awareness through education with an emphasis on film. We view the need for humanity to meaningfully engage with its living environment has reached a tipping point. We support this advocacy by developing and maintaining a media library for distribution to educational and public institutions, non-profits, businesses and individuals. Our perspective on environmental ecology, also includes human ecology. To supplement this effort, we maintain a network of subject matter experts among film producers, scientists, academics, as well as other distributors who share a common aspiration to identify, produce and share discoveries in nature and humanity. Sample topics include deforestation, water resources, ocean conservation, sustainable fishing, renewable energies, climate change and other issues that affect humanity in the context of itself and nature.
What it reported doing in 2025
Filmmaking Workshops are led by accomplished local documentary filmmakers. We serve nonprofits, museums, schools, and retirement homes in providing custom tailored workshops where each participant makes a short documentary of their own. Participants film and edit on iPads provided by Green Planet Films. Workshops are designed to fit the organization's goals, highlight strengths, and engage participants. Workshops typically take place over a weekend, or meet weekly for a number of weeks.
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 96% 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 53.3%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46% of revenue deployed · 53.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.