Plan Nh - the Foundation for Shaping the Built Environment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223019910
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Portsmouth, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6034527526
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $236,441
- Expenses
- $149,086
- Assets
- $340,071
- Liabilities
- $325
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN GEHRIS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TIFFANY TONONI MCNAMARA (EXECUTIVE DI): $68,920 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Plan nh, founded in 1989, has a mission to foster excellence in the planning, design and development of New Hampshire's built environment. Our membership is a multidisciplinary group of architects, engineers, landscape architects, planners, builders and real estate professionals, financial and insurance firms, and others with an interest in how, what, and where we build, and the impact the built environment has on our daily lives. Several New Hampshire towns, cities, and nonprofit organizations are also members. Plan nh has a vision of vibrant communities across the state; communities that are economically and socially vibrant, in which: our changing context is taken into consideration during planning and related decisions; communities balance necessary growth with preserving their unique sense of place; compact, mixed-use areas are encouraged; there are reasonable, affordable choices for where to live and how to get about; we are stewards of our natural resources and historic assets;
What it reported doing in 2025
In february, plan nh hosted our annual "virtual town hall," introducing board members and plans for the year. This recording was added to our online library. In march, plan nh hired anna wells to fill a newly created part-time program coordinator role. In october, plan nh hosted our annual golf classic and fundraiser at beaver meadows in concord, hosting 120+ players and raising over 31,000 for the plan nh mission and scholarship fund. Throughout 2024: a.plan nh maintained a membership of 100+ firms, municipalities, nonprofits, and individuals passionate about nh's built environment. B.plan nh continued to fundraise our mission through nhgives and giving tuesday, as well as our first ever charitable gaming nights awarded to plan nh from revo casino & social house in dover, nh and held in august. C.plan nh continued work with nh housing on the housing opportunity planning grant program, specifically dedicating a specific number of charrettes for communities who are also hop grantees. Plan nh continues to inform and inspire communities, as well as the planners, designers and builders who shape them, about ideas, trends and practices that could contribute to creating delightful places in which to live, work, and/or play. We do so through our events and through newsletters, blog entries, and our website - www.plannh.org.
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 91% 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.9%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 57%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.9% of revenue deployed · 57% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.