Greenhouse Accelerator Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813313009
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Alpharetta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6503530633
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,500
- Expenses
- $17,527
- Assets
- $154,441
- Liabilities
- $5,904
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- R Andrew Marshall (Executive Director and Board Member)
People named in this filing
- R Andrew Marshall (Executive Director and Board Member)
- Anthony Coker (Chairperson)
- Andrea Pinabell (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
The organization endeavors to make innovation a driver of a robust, inclusive cleantech economy that creates jobs in growth industries, commercializes technology that eliminates waste and pollution and creates more resilient communities in Georgia and throughout the southeast.
What it reported doing in 2024
By providing coaching and advice to innovators through its network of mentors, gacih facilitates business formation, product development, market and product validation, and early field deployments. These services are meant to enhance market access to innovators in Georgia and the greater southeast across cleantech sectors that complement with the region's strenghts: logistics, built-environment, agriculture, fintech, and resilient clean energy. Future work in this program area will focus on creating industry and corporate partnerships that identify commercialization opportunities for new products and services, and the programs that increase the number of pilots the decrease the hurdles to widespread adoption of cleantech solutions at scale in the state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.5%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 39.4%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 78.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.81; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.5% of revenue deployed · 39.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.