Save the Bees Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921247980
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Reno, NV, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Geology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,221
- Expenses
- $47,007
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREGORY SHVED (President)
People named in this filing
- GREGORY SHVED (President)
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
To educate the public importance of bees
What it reported doing in 2025
SAVE THE BEES FOUNDATIONSave The Bees Foundation has a goal to become a Nevada 501(3)(c) non-profit corporation that organizes and funds bee research, environmental restoration, and streamlining funding to other organizations taking action to better our bees and our environment.From the beginning weve been working to leave a positive impact on our planet. Over the last decade, members of our team have worked in commercial agriculture to help produce over 100 million pounds of food, alongside income for the working people in the beekeeping industry, and most importantly, over the last 5 years have been investing into bee research and technology.We raise awareness on pollinators while advocating for more bee research and environmental restoration. Our goal is to create solutions that will allow bee populations to remain sustainable. Each donation we receive will go towards funding bee research and environmental restoration.Members of our team and volunteers within the foundation will have backgrounds in agriculture, agronomy, beekeeping, chemistry, conservation biology, earth science, environmental engineering, forestry, geology, sustainability, wildlife ecology and more.Our foundation will organize various community projects to restore environmental habitats around the United States of America upon approvals from private landowners and government officials. Additionally we will advocate for modern practices of environmental sustainability within agricultural, commercial, and residential properties. Everyone can take part in saving the bees.We will partner with numerous organizations throughout the nation that show successful efforts in commercial honey bee research, native and wild bee research, native and wild bee conservation, forest restoration and habitat conservation.Our efforts will reach beyond just saving the bees, we want to create sustainability within all types of ecosystems found in the United States of America. We believe the pollinators are one of the foundation pieces in an ecological habitat. Without pollen and nectar which comes from plants and trees, bees cannot survive. Without pollinators, non self-fertilizing species of plants and trees cannot survive. With this in mind, we believe that within saving the bees, we need to look at the entire ecosystem, to make sure it has all the pieces it needs for the entire habitat to survive. We hope to be able to look back in 20 years at the seeds we planted for them to grow into trees taller than we could imagine, surrounded by bees with plenty of food for them provided by the plants we planted.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -72.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.