Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300088382
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Park Ridge, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3128576352
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,232
- Expenses
- $14,654
- Assets
- $7,890
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM CLESEN (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- MIKE CURRY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELISA BELL (TREASURER/ADMIN DIRECTOR)
- MEGAN BRADBURN (DIRECTOR)
- JIM CLESEN (PRESIDENT ELECT)
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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o
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. 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: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.7%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 56.1%; rating input score 56
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: 31%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -34.6% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.7% of revenue deployed · 56.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2015
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.