Landweb Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881428480
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Middlebury, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8029993838
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- General Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,856
- Expenses
- $187,165
- Assets
- $17,342
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ABRAHAM COLLINS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZA LETOURNEAU (SECRETARY/EXEC DIRECTOR): $50,372 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide landscape feedback from on-farm environmental data to support land managers in healing our watershed homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
See schedule owe operate a field team to collect on the ground environmental data and develop and utilize models that incorporate on the ground data with weather data and satellite remote sensing data to deliver landscape feedback to land managers. This feedback is used to support in management decision making and consists of key physical, chemical, and topographical soil properties, leaf area index, biomass, plant available water, and energy and water budgets. Accomplishments - 1) operated a four person field team who collected 81 sample sets on 21 field visits across 3 farms 2) conducted electrical conductivity (dualem) mapping on 270 acres across 6 farms anc collected 27 soil cores across three farms 3) collected 8 forage samples, including different pasture mixes and conditions and native plant samples, showing high nutrient content and feed value in more diverse pastures, deep rooted forbs, and cup plant. 4) continued to develop our modeling system, research design, and data analysis with our team of environmental biophysics, database, modeling, and remote sensing experts. Throughout 2025, we provided biomass estimates following every satellite overpass to the 14 partner farms. 5) hosted events discussing soil science, strategies for introducing native perennials, increasing biodiversity, and other strategies to increase yeild and support soil and livestock health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $144K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.