Mevo
Legal name: Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800713891
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Mahwah, NJ, USA
- Phone
- (201) 316-4888
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $388,032
- Expenses
- $375,797
- Assets
- $141,054
- Liabilities
- $20,074
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Violet Reed (Executive Dir.): $63,575 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage youth and young people in core leadership roles to address local and global ecological problems through tangible actions such as organic farming, trail building, and trash cleanups.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operate sustainable farms and offer environmental education programs for people of all ages and volunteers about sustainable farming practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 56.5%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 56.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $212K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.