Plant a Seed

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841871362
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Aurora, CO, USA
Phone
4053052265
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$382,163
Expenses
$369,524
Assets
$19,746
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LASHAUNDRA HILDRETH (PRESIDENT)
  • CEDRIA FAIR (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CEDRIA FAIR (VICE PRESIDENT): $45,288 total reported compensation
  • LASHAUNDRA HILDRETH (PRESIDENT): $43,418 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Plant a seed is an innovative, caring and compassionate agency eager to not only meet the needs but surpass the desires and wishes of the individuals we serve. Our friendly and professional team members do whatever it takes to make our clients life journey enjoyable and fulfilling. Plant a seed provides developmentally delayed clients with safe, nurturing, and therapeutic services. The host home and scc programs offer need-based supports to meet each client's individual needs. Plant a seed works hand in hand with clients, families, and their teams to provide tailored services, resources and supports to better the individuals served overall quality of life.plant a seed eagerly welcomes and integrates persons with developmental disabilities into our communities, families and homes. Plant a seed staff uphold high standards while focusing on person centered preferences.

What it reported doing in 2024

Plant a seed provides developmentally delayed clients with a safe, nurturing, and therapeutic host home program. The program offers need-based supports to meet each individual's needs and to work hand in hand with them and their families to provide services, resources and support to better the individuals served quality of life. While the primary focus of the program is residential services, plant a seed staff also assists in the coordination of outside services, medical needs, and community integration. Host homes are provided by extensively screened and trained families who welcome and integrate persons with developmental disabilities into their family and home. The program provides 24-hour support to clients. Individuals residing in plant a seed host homes receive a high level of support in areas such as, but not limited to, daily living skills, shopping, hygiene skills, community integration, transportation and medication management. Host homes are regularly monitored and extensively trained. High standards are implemented and upheld while focusing on person-centered preferences.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 16
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
  • 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th 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: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $296K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.