Rerooted Connections

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263719247
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2020, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Decorah, IA, USA
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Agricultural Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$122,260
Expenses
$97,082
Assets
$446,825

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Todd Burzynski (President)

People named in this filing

  • Rachael Munn (Director)
  • Michael Sammons (Groundskeeper and Forest Management)
  • Joseph Jonas (Forest Management Labor)

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

Advancing the cultural heritage of growing preserving and preparing food. Serving as an educational center focused on teaching students how to make choices that support sustainable food systems. Serving as a living example of an environmentally sustainable lifestyle and providing access to individuals making efforts to engage in those practices.

What it reported doing in 2025

Land Stewardship Program: Forest Management Plan included a timber sale to promote forest health across approximately 40 acres and an intensive Tree Stand Improvement plan involving crop tree release goat grazing and tree planting on 1 acre. Conservation stewardship program included planting and maintaining over 100 native shrubs and trees on .10 acres of land.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 69% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 11
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.5%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 9

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.6; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.5% of revenue deployed · 9.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.