Regenerative Community Land Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872471795
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rollinsville, CO, USA
- Phone
- 2015270526
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,817
- Expenses
- $93,343
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $75,001
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alex Corren (Executive Director & Cofounder)
People named in this filing
- Alex Corren (Executive Director & Cofounder)
- Christopher Giersch (Product Director and Cofounder)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education, research, and the promotion of and appreciation for community access to land and other natural resources and environs for sustainable: regenerative agriculture ecological economics renewable energy production natural building affordable housing recreational open space community development Enhancement of the community by acquiring by gift or purchase land and interests in land and environs so as to: Retain and convey interest in land in order to Encourage access to land and other natural resources for community-defined purposes including affordable housing, farming, economic diversity and recreation, Appropriately conserve the ecological resources of the land. Retain for the community any unearned increment in the market value of the land.
What it reported doing in 2024
Continued refining the governance model
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -64.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.