Sustainable Coffee Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
393843624
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Professional Societies & Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,000
Assets
$2,000

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Marty Pollack (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Marty Pollack (Board President)
  • Drew Billups (Board Secretary)
  • Manuel Diaz (Board Treasurer)

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

The Sustainable Coffee Institute SCI is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3. SCIs primary activities consist of developing and delivering structured educational programs that build technical sensory quality-control and sustainability competencies for individuals across the global coffee sector. These programs are designed to improve product quality environmental stewardship and economic resilience throughout the coffee value chain particularly in producing countries and emerging coffee markets. SCIs educational activities emphasize public-benefit workforce education and capacity building rather than training tailored to the needs of any single employer or commercial enterprise.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization was officially registered at the end of 2025 and did not conduct any program activities during this tax year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

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 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • 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.