Sonoran Studio Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832429275
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6023075399
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $294
- Assets
- $3,559
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- DOUGLAS MCCORD (DIRECTOR)
- ERICA QUINTANA (DIRECTOR)
- DEVENDRA PAWAR (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the sonoran studio foundation (ssf) is to inform and inspire people and groups to understand the importance of a sustainable, living future and the challenges that lie before us. Living buildings, as pursued through the living building challenge, is an extremely important strategy for transforming how people create and inhabit places of dwelling, working and gathering. Through volunteer efforts the ssf will inform and inspire through educational outreach including but not limited to: seminars, lectures, speaking engagements, literature case studies, white papers, websites, etc. And tours of the sonoran studio, slated to be the first certified living building in the sonoran desert. These activities will be conducted throughout the year on- and off-site. Projected time allocated to such activities are at least one tour per week and at least one other outreach effort per month. These activities will be funded primarily through donations of volunteer time and talent. Any fun
What it reported doing in 2024
Set up endowment with Arizona state university to be able to provide scholarships for professionals and students in the building industry to earn and maintain living future professional credentials i.e. Lfa designation.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.11; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.