Hummingbird Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453043080
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2162606850
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,587
- Expenses
- $2,705
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $4,587
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS KENNEDY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS KENNEDY (PRESIDENT)
- MARILYN MCHUGH (EXECUTIVE DI)
- ANNE LEONE (SECRETARY)
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
The hummingbird project works for social justice by reconnecting people to the natural world and empowering community resilience through ecological regeneration and sustainable practices. Form 990 review the board of directors reviews form 990 for completeness and accuracy before submission to the IRS. Availability of documents the organization makes its organizing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. Conflict of interest policy all board members and key employees are required to sign a conflict of interest policy. Board members and key employees must disclose when something may be construed as a conflict of interest. No conflicts of interest have been identified to date.
What it reported doing in 2025
The cleveland seed bank is a project of the hummingbird project, a nonprofit that facilitates, educates and is building a community network of local seed savers. We partner with 7 different public library systems to host 20 seed libraries that span 3 counties in greater cleveland, to address a fundamental gap in our local food system: a regional, diverse, and community-stewarded seed supply.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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. 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: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.9%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 38.3%; rating input score 38
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.6%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -42.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -49.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -84.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.9% of revenue deployed · 38.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.