Snowlands Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943395963
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Los Gatos, CA, USA
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$42,522
Expenses
$37,269
Assets
$353,273
Liabilities
$170

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Marcus Libkind (Chairman President)
  • Gail Ferrell Small (Vice-president Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Marcus Libkind (Chairman President)
  • Gail Ferrell Small (Vice-president Treasurer)
  • Jim Gibson (Secretary)

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

Education and advocacy

What it reported doing in 2025

Educating the public about issues affecting their winter use of public lands.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.48; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.