Ideagarden Institute Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862425643
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Healdsburg, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7077386555
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,774,422
- Expenses
- $1,044,840
- Assets
- $2,485,852
- Liabilities
- $60,884
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dawnelise Regnery-Rosen (FRM Co-Executive Director)
- Alana Siegner (CFS Co-Executive Director)
- Ryan Peterson (CFS Co-Executive Director)
- William Rosenzweig (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Samantha Derrick (Director Plant Futures Intitiatives): $110,269 total reported compensation
- Dawnelise Regnery-Rosen (FRM Co-Executive Director): $91,500 total reported compensation
- Alana Siegner (CFS Co-Executive Director): $19,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To cultivate the success and enduring impact of mission-driven entrepreneurs emerging from University programs whose food systems innovations will positively transform culture, community, climate, health and social equity.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Plant Futures advanced its mission to equip students to become the next generation of ethical leaders, systems thinkers, and effective advocates for a plant-centric future. Plant Futures hosted the Challenge Lab course at UC Berkeley, partnering with over 10 Lab businesses; 99% of students reported that the Lab helped them gain multiple professional contacts in the plant-based food and ag sector. Plant Futures also received a grant to launch a new three-unit, cross-campus course by Spring 2025. Plant Futures chapters expanded from 44 to 80 campus chapters, and engaged over 2,100 active student chapter members from diverse racial, geographic, and academic backgrounds. Other student support included, but is not limited to, hosting a Career and Leadership Series that engaged 250 students and launching a Mentorship Program that connected 40 students with experienced professionals from leading sustainable enterprises. In February, Plant Futures hosted the Plant Futures Fest with over 500 attendees from around the globe to celebrate the future of plant-forward food systems. Plant Futures continues to explore and grow its international presence, particularly in Mexico. In 2024, Plant Futures hosted a leadership networking event and began exploring chapter growth across Mexico. Plant Futures was honored as a finalist for the Program of the Year award at the Vegan Women Summit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.3%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.38; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 64.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 75.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $958K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.