Stewardship West
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861846847
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arnold, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2092169845
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,655,675
- Expenses
- $5,388,635
- Assets
- $1,543,938
- Liabilities
- $516,909
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN ZEMAN (PRESIDENT AN)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN ZEMAN (PRESIDENT AN): $269,360 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER BAKER (DIRECTOR/ OP): $160,281 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 stewardship west is to ensure and protect the health and welfare of the national forest lands for current and future generations. Stewardship west plans to support and promote forest restoratoin work with the federal government thorughout the wester regions. A. Stewardship west plans to work as a not for profit entity to provide forest restoration goals for public and private lands. This includes hand thinning, mastication, or timber removal by means of providing agreements to for profit and other nonprofit entities. B. Stewardship west will conduct the activities through agreements and partnerships authorities. C. Activities will be conducted on national forest, blm and private lands west of the Mississippi in the united states of america. D. 100% of the non-profit time will be devoted to the above activities. E. Activities will be funded by state, federal and private grants and appropriated funds. Donations will be ultililzed also. F. All activities are used to create
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of stewardship west is to ensure and protect the health and welfare of the national forest lands for current and future generations. Stewardship west plans to support and promote forest restoration work with the federal government thorughout the western regions. All activities are used to create a not-for-profit program that the united states forest service has set up to implement forest restoration goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $72.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 71.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 66.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 66% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $269K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.8M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.