Reserva the Youth Land Trust Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842906892
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,097
- Expenses
- $125,540
- Assets
- $56,939
- Liabilities
- $28,555
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Georgia C Broaddus (Founder and Executive Director)
- Joseph Wilkins (Vice President and Youth Director)
People named in this filing
- Georgia C Broaddus (Founder and Executive Director)
- Joseph Wilkins (Vice President and Youth Director)
- Lucy Houliston (Secretary and Youth Director)
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
At Reserva: The Youth Land Trust, we empower young people to make a measurable difference for threatened species and habitats through conservation, education, and storytelling.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conservation: Reserva's conservation accomplishments included supporting the Dracula Reserve community after a devastating landslide with a $2484 grant to help Indigenous families rebuild destroyed homes in a sustainable way. We also supported long-term strategy development for the removal of mining concessions from this biodiverse landscape. We launched a new major project in Panama with our partners, The Leatherback Project, aimed at identifying marine migratory corridors for endangered sea turtles to inform conservation actions. We supported one expedition in February and co-organized a major 3-week expedition in July/August to begin satellite tag deployment fieldwork. Reserva purchased 10 satellite tags to support this impactful research, an investment in science representing a significant portion of our conservation expedition expenses (about $35,000 on satellite tags). We began scouting potential conservation sites in Colombia and contributed $4,400 toward conservation activities in a unique Andes-Amazon rainforest plot in Piamonte, Colombia. We also launched a new media campaign as part of Friends of Aldabra, a group using storytelling and advocacy to save the globally unique Aldabra Atoll from development threats. For all of this work, we used a fundraising software that specifically caters to our volunteer youth team, enabling fun peer-to-peer campaigns that help every young person be part of conservation actions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.