James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832230411
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9172321385
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,518
- Expenses
- $28,206
- Assets
- $18,264
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAY PULTINAS (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- RAY PULTINAS (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- RICHARD WOOLEY (BOARD MEMBER/SUSTAINABILTY COORDINATOR)
- SUNG KIM (TREASURER/ASSISTANT TO THE 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 mission is to strive for inquiry and project-based solutions at the juncture of food, environmental and social justice. Our goal is to build a healthier and greener resilient community by engaging, integrating, educating and serving student and community members, especially low income and marginalized people, in collaboration with numerous partner organizations with common interests.
What it reported doing in 2025
PUBLIC GARDENS - With help from our 60+ volunteers and interns, we steward 0.75 acres of green space adjacent to the James Baldwin Plaza including: Meg's Garden & Edible Forest, Jubilant Pollinator Garden, Garden of Cultural Heritage, and Elderberry Patch. We also regularly help maintain gardens at the Museum of Bronx History and the Edgar Alan Poe Cottage. As NYC Park Stewards, we perform regular maintenance and cleanups of nearby Mosholu Parkland, as well as street trees within our vicinity. The gardens are an opportunity to provide hands-on knowledge on how to grow healthy food in a sustainable way. The goal is to promote citizen action, environmental justice and stewardship of vital urban green spaces. Meg's Garden is a natural medicine garden created to educate the community about the virtues of plants and their potential as healing plant medicines. We harvest plants for use in 18 cooking demos and to make healing tea to share at the market. Most of all, the gardens function as a safe welcoming place for neighbors to connect and share knowledge, food and stories. And to celebrate cultural diversity. Our goal is to help people to connect to and build reciprocal relationships with nature as we believe this will also contribute to their holistic health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -28.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 90.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.