Sponsor Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810741435
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Framingham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5088723300
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,355,504
- Expenses
- $1,237,543
- Assets
- $990,084
- Liabilities
- $67,769
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harry Meltzer (Executive Director)
- Stephen Meltzer (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Harry Meltzer (Executive Director): $6,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Mission.Earth (Sponsor, Inc.) is to empower, educate and encourage our partners so as to enable maximum impact on progressive social innovation. We provide a platform and collaborative community so that administration and regulation does not impede positive social action. Our vision is a world where innovative passion for socially positive action can be executed immediately and cost-effectively.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Farmers Land Trust (TFLT) exists to facilitate the preservation of farms and the transition of land ownership into community stewardship for a resilient and just future. Our organization is founded on a heritage of innovating the Farmland Commons model to serve local and regional farming communities. We exist to continue building on this heritage by developing the principles and practices needed to allow this mission to grow, evolve and live on to meet the needs and opportunities that this generational transition of land requires. The Farmers Land Trust exists in service to key members of the ecosystem the Land itself, transitioning Landowners, and Community-based Farmers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $108.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 43.5%; rating input score 44; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 59% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 33 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.