Lake James Environmental Association Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237355778
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Nebo, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8284752735
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,347
- Expenses
- $99,949
- Assets
- $99,013
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joanne Deyo (President)
- Todd Bell (Vice President - Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Joanne Deyo (President)
- Todd Bell (Vice President - Treasurer)
- Marshall Taylor (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
To protect and enhance the long-term environmental health and natural beauty of Lake James and its watershed.
What it reported doing in 2025
Watershed Symposium - Collaboration day of Govt, Business and Non-Profits to discuss protection of the Lake James Watershed
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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
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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.7%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 57%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.7% of revenue deployed · 57% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.