Sheldrake Environmental Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132735491
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Larchmont, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9148341443
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,663
- Expenses
- $174,475
- Assets
- $170,694
- Liabilities
- $4,334
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAM YERGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER KEEFE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- PAM YERGER (PRESIDENT)
- ANN KATZENSTEIN (TREASURER)
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
The mission of sheldrake is to inspire environmental awareness and action in the community and to preserve, protect and enhance local environmental resources
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide environmental education with a curriculum enhanced by science. Stewardship of larchmont reservoir and other loacal conservation areas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 57.7%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.6% of revenue deployed · 57.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.