High Plains Permaculture
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934779841
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Niwot, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3038345235
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,145
- Expenses
- $83,849
- Assets
- $6,379
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Scanes-Wolfe (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Antoinette Wolfe (Board Chair)
- Nick DiDomenico (Board Director)
- Keats Dormont (Board 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our primary exempt purpose is educational We use the management of diverse regenerative demonstration farms to provide hands-on experience for the public to engage with their food systems and access high quality nutritious food We also use the farms as experimental sites to further develop ecological farm systems for our bioregion that sequester carbon support biodiversity rehydrate landscapes and otherwise help adapt to and mitigate climate change
What it reported doing in 2025
All of the food from our farm systems goes towards feeding volunteer participants creating free access to high quality foods At each of the 38 volunteer days we hosted we served a nutritious farm to table meal to 15 individuals totaling 570 meals served We also distributed vegetables fruits eggs medicinal herbs and meat to our participants as seasonally available Because our focus is on cultivating a complete diet we track the total calories produced by food group across each year at the Niwot Homestead not including other partner properties This year on 1 cultivated acre we produced enough food to feed 18 individuals a complete diet year-round a 180 increase from last year In actuality of course this food was distributed amongst about 40 people in proportion to their participation We also produced a surplus of approximately 950 lbs of beef and pork as a byproduct of land regeneration at our partner property Wild View Farm for distribution to volunteer members and sale to support programming The vast majority of our budget is directed to managing the farm systems and volunteer communities that serve all three of these program areas in tandem it is not possible to detach them from one another so I have split the expenses and grants for running the farms evenly between each program category
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93
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: 23.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 61.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K 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: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.