One People One Reef
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850658879
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Soquel, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8187519162
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,168
- Expenses
- $322,849
- Assets
- $471,786
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- NICOLE CRANE (chair & Co-dir.)
- dr MICHELLE PADDACK (Sec & Treasurer)
- MAGUL RULMAL (V Chair&Co-Dir.)
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 achieve effective and enduring protection of critical marine habitats and the people who rely on them.-To develop innovative & diverse partnerships that advance adaptive management and conservation in Micronesian outer islands.-To develop local capacity through a unique collaborative approach that weaves traditional knowledge & management practices together with modern science and technology.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education and OutreachLong-term goals: Support the documentation and preservation of culture and traditional practices bycreating media, art, and educational materials in collaboration with local communities to share with local communities, the general public, and policymakers.2025 accomplishments: In 2025, OPOR expanded communications, storytelling, and outreach efforts to elevatecommunity voices, share scientific findings, and strengthen public awareness aroundmarine stewardship and conservation in Micronesia.OPORs Media Director coordinated organizational communications across social mediaand digital communications platforms such as Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook, sharing educational content, project updates, and stories from Yap and Ulithicommunities. Media activities included development of visual storytelling materials, photography, video documentation, and narrative content highlighting ecologicalmonitoring, cultural knowledge, and community engagement activities.OPOR also supported continued collaboration with local artists and cultural contributors, including coordination connected to Ulithian Vibes and National Geographic-supported programming. Additional communications efforts included development support for a five-year impact report integrating scientific findings, community narratives, graphics, and data visualization materials.Educational and outreach materials were shared through public-facing digital platforms and community engagement activities to support broader awareness of marineconservation, cultural stewardship, and community-based resource management.These communications and outreach activities strengthened OPORs ability to sharescientific and cultural knowledge with local communities, partners, funders, policymakers, and broader public audiences while supporting the long-term preservation of cultural and environmental knowledge systems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -175.5%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $248K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.