Rep Environmental Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311683604
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Oakton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7037859570
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $377,331
- Expenses
- $363,790
- Assets
- $523,682
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Jenkins (President)
Highest reported compensation
- David Jenkins (President): $129,446 total reported compensation
- Ariel Cesar (Membership Director): $61,126 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To safeguard the air water land wildlife and natural systems that sustain and enhance life on earth by promoting responsible stewardship and conservation empowering fellow conservatives and advancing the original conservative philosophy that compels us to be good stewards of our natural heritage.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educated Florida conservatives about climate change clean energy and various activities of the states monopoly utilities. Fought utility rate hikes. Educated Floridians about punitive fee proposals for electric vehicle owners. Promoted rooftop solar as a means of enhancing grid reliability during hurricanes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 70%; rating input score 70; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $343K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 40 current checks pass · 7 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesProfFundraising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX InformationTechnology column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.