Hardwood Forest Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581933716
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Orange, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9018604131
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,174
- Expenses
- $165,508
- Assets
- $88,718
- Liabilities
- $8,900
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON DEFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NEIL OWENS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JESPER BACH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALLISON DEFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NEIL OWENS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KONSTANTIN POSHERSTNIK (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Supporting the forest products industry
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation produces and promotes educational films and publications related to teaching the general public about ecology of hardwood forests and the role they play in society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.5%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 22
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: -8.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.5% of revenue deployed · 21.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.