Home Earth Alliance Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934050861
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Delmar, NY, USA
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,599
Expenses
$92,213
Assets
$48,669
Liabilities
$5,237

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Pamela Skripak (Co-Founder & President Home Earth Alliance)

People named in this filing

  • Pamela Skripak (Co-Founder & President Home Earth Alliance)
  • Frederick Erlich (Retired Founder & Exec Director Living Resources)
  • Pamela Tindall O'Brien (Retired Atty)

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

Ecological education and restoration

What it reported doing in 2025

IMAGINE Native Plant Farm received funding to propagate native plants from responsibly-collected wild seed for residential pollinator gardens ecological landscaping and urban greenways as well as install 4 demonstration gardens in the City of Albany. In 2025 our second growing season we grew approximately 45 species and 7,500 plants for installation in the Greater Capital Region NY.

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

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: 15
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 14.1%; rating input score 14
  • Program expense ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 17

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: 16.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 79.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 57% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 14.1% of revenue deployed · 16.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K 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: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.