North Carolina Urban Forest Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561962469
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9196146388
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,380
- Expenses
- $171,250
- Assets
- $34,494
- Liabilities
- $5,714
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
People named in this filing
- ANTHONY RAMSEY (DIRECTOR)
- KYLE COVERDALE (DIRECTOR)
- JASON SMITH (DIRECTOR)
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
The mission of the council is to advocate the sustainability of North Carolina's urban forests through the use of economic, human, and environmental resources. The council, in pursuit of its stated mission, aims to meet the following goals: a) inform and educate council members and the general public about the proper care of trees and their environment and economic value, b) promote high standards of professionalism and provide professional education to individuals and organizations involved in the care and preservation of trees, c) promote the compliance with professional standards of arboriculture and urban forestry management practices, d) engage in partnership building and advocacy while monitoring and pursing issues that concern urban forest sustainability, e) support, encourage, and communicate continued urban forestry and arboricultural research.
What it reported doing in 2025
The North Carolina urban forest council organizes an annual 3-day conference hosted in different locations across the state. We partner with industry trade associations and co-sponsor other tree-related events, activities, and workshops across the state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.3%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.3% of revenue deployed · 2.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.