Just Earth - Cincinnati Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920871290
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5137036160
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,960
- Expenses
- $27,554
- Assets
- $41,574
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Shannon (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Shannon (Board President)
- Charles Stenken (Board Treasurer & Secretary)
- Mary Judy Tensing SNDdeN (Board Member)
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
Just Earth - Cincinnati is a 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) public charity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted three college groups who were on alternative break on separate evenings presenting information regarding justice issues and climate change. Over 30 students participated. Sponsored and hosted a booth at the Cincinnati Festival of Faiths presenting information about climate change and the programs that Just Earth - Cincinnati has to offer. Over 70 people stopped and reviewed our material. Sponsored a production of the play "X-Marks the Spot" which highlights the importance of understanding the environment, geography and history of where one lives. Over 20 people were in attendance at the performance. Hosted an information table at three events sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur involving a total of over 150 people. Conducted a "En-ROADS Climate Workshop" at a Cincinnati Nature Center for eleven people, increasing their understanding of what strategies are effective in mitigating climate change. Held a poetry competition with the theme of climate change and a Reading and Awards Event for high school students. Over fifty students submitted poems and forty people attended the Reading and Awards event. Sponsored an Evening of Poetry at Kroner Art Gallery focused on the environment and climate change. Over forty people were in attendance. Held an art competition for students and adults on the theme of climate change with over 50 entries. The Art Exhibit Awards Event had over 70 people in attendance. Provided consultation to the Jesuit Parishes/Archdiocesan Pilgrimage of Hope for Creation, which hosted over 35 people on a pilgrimage to review the progress in restoring and ongoing need to respect the ecosystems that we inhabit. Sponsored creation of a theatrical production on the them of climate change which will reach theatre attendees in the coming year. Partnered with Third Act Ohio, financially sponsored and led the planning group that presented a Sun Day event, celebrating and educating attendees about solar power. There were over 330 people in attendance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.2%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 29
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: -10.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 78.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -43.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.2% of revenue deployed · 29.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.