Hawthorne Valley Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132722428
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Ghent, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5186724465
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,096,672
- Expenses
- $13,607,079
- Assets
- $14,720,334
- Liabilities
- $4,071,291
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTIN PING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ALFA DEMMELLASH (CO PRESIDENT)
- MATT STINCHCOMB (CO PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARTIN PING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $115,671 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization engages in the establishment and maintenance of a rural institution that affords recreational, vocational, and educational opportunities and AIDS students in developing practical trades and skills. The instruction is based upon the pedagogical principles and methods of rudolf steiner (or waldorf schools).
What it reported doing in 2024
Research and other: this program is comprised of the following sub programs:- center for social research: strives to promote social health by supporting freedom and choice in cultural life, equality and democracy in political life, and associative cooperation in economic life;- farmscape ecology: a participatory research and outreach program that fosters compassion for the ecological and cultural landscape of columbia county, New York;- long table harvest: gleans produce from area farms for distribution to food pantries;- light forms: an art center offering public presentations, exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, an artist-in-residence program, publications, and a small gift shop-alkion publications: publishes and distributes books grounded in the path of inner development outlined by rudolf steiner-net positive: a program that a) contributes more to the natural world and its inhabitants than it extracts, b) harmonizes social, economic, and environmental needs, and c) formalizes and embeds these commitments in every aspect of the association. The association's efforts will address carbon reduction, ecosystem stewardship, and climate risk mitigation at an organizational level and will also help cultivate the profound internal resilience required to navigate a dizzying confluence of social and climatic challenges with optimism and strength.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.