Silvoculture Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843382808
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2406989015
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,918
- Expenses
- $74,295
- Assets
- $54,295
- Liabilities
- $15,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANE E DENNISON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CARYOLYN C JUDD (DIRECTOR)
- ROSEWITHA AUGUSTA (DIRECTOR)
- JANE E DENNISON (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
1) to advance education in the area of nut tree establishment, maintenance, and harvesting in order to encourage the investment in planting nuts for the future. 2) to facilitate nut tree establishment by a) seeking grant funding, b) setting up infrastructure to support small to medium size plantings such as nurseries and cooperatives for processing and marketing nut products, and c) supporting efforts to establish and maintain nut tree orchards.
What it reported doing in 2025
Part iii line 28 catalyzing agroforestry grant program (cagp 2024): in 2024 silvoculture served as a sub-awardee of the catalyzing agroforestry grant program, funded by the edwards mother earth foundation and facilitated by Virginia tech. The program provided direct payments to farmers to install agroforestry systems. Silvoculture's role focused on outreach, applicant guidance, and field education in the mid-atlantic region. Staff promoted the program through conferences, social media, and email campaigns; offered one-on-one consultations; reviewed and ranked applications; and conducted follow-up interviews to ensure effective project selection. A cagp field day at willow run farm drew 12 attendees and highlighted silvopasture design and implementation. Through these efforts silvoculture helped expand access to agroforestry funding and increased farm adoption of tree- crop systems across the region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.6% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.