Sustainable Lafayette

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264130302
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Lafayette, CA, USA
Phone
0000000000
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Energy Resources Conservation and Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,096
Expenses
$53,880
Assets
$67,124
Liabilities
$510

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brad Crane (Board President)
  • Sejal Choksi-Chugh (Board Vice President and Secretary)

People named in this filing

  • Brad Crane (Board President)
  • Sejal Choksi-Chugh (Board Vice President and Secretary)
  • Lynne Jones (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

To provide the community with the information inspiration tools and assistance that facilitate the adoption of sustainable practices Furthermore we seek to act as a model mentor and partner for other interested communities

What it reported doing in 2025

Description The Lafayette Community Garden and Outdoor Learning Center LCG-OLC hosted work days tours for garden clubs and scout troops classes events and an annual open house for residents to learn about gardening growing food composting raising chickens and Native Bay Miwok culture LCG-OLC produced over a ton of vegetables using sustainable methods and hosted fifteen classes of third graders for Bay Miwok natural history The LGC-OLC hosts an apiary with Mt Diablo Beekeepers Association and makes the parking lot available for The Boy Scouts annual christmas tree sale LGC-OLC maintains a Little Free Library and a Little Free Pantry to provide food for those in need

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 69

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -67.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.