John C Vanderburg Rainforest Biosphere
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201809282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2010
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Henderson, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7022696406
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,201
- Expenses
- $28,294
- Assets
- $48,399
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operate and maintain a tropical rainforest biosphere
What it reported doing in 2010
The john c vanderburg rainforest biosphere is a kindergarten through twelfth grade hands-on learning laboratory for the children of the clark county school district. In 2010, the biosphere hosted 74 filed trips from clark county schools each averaging 30 students per visit. Each field trip averages 1.5 hours and is themed by grade level for kindergarten through fifth grade. During 2010, students from area clark county schools were provided 1,110 hours of instruction in the biosphere. Each field trip is conducted through five different areas in the facility with instruction in each area being given by pairs of student docents who have undergone extensive training of at least 20 hours combined sessions totaling 900 hours. These training sessions are coordinated and supervised by the members of the biosphere board who work closely with the school administration and teachers to create the curriculum. Each field trip participant is instructed in aspects of the global, social, ecomonic and/or bio diversity of the world's rainforests. District teachers are required to attend a 16 hour professional development course in order to bring their students on field trips to the biosphere. In 2010, twenty teachers attended this course for a total of 320 hours of professional development. Additionally, each student at john c vanderburg elementary school is required to undergo two 40 minute lessons in the biosphere per month. These lessons are conducted a minimum of 7 hours of instruction in the biosphere per year. The 37 classroom teachers that compose the faculty of john c vanderburg elementary school were responsible for a total of 259 hours of instruction in the biosphere this past year. In 2010, 800 students from our school each spent an average of 1 hour 20 minutes in formal instruction. All total, 6,870 hours of formal instruction was conducted for the students of the clark county school district.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -55.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.