Soil Carbon Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261692060
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- La Grande, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5412631888
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Physical & Earth Sciences,
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,238
- Expenses
- $50,014
- Assets
- $118,547
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Peter Donovan (president and treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Peter Donovan (president and treasurer)
- Didi Pershouse (director)
- Abe Collins (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educational, supporting learning networks around soil health and watershed function.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community capacity building relative to monitoring carbon and water cycling, soil health and watershed function. In 2025 we did 12 workshops in 3 states, plus coaching, mentoring, monitoring, and development of web tools. We manufactured and sold infiltration rings for measuring soil health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.7%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 50
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: 58.7%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.7% of revenue deployed · 49.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 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: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.