Sustainable St Helena an Environmental Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863594916
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- St Helena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7077380896
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,305
- Expenses
- $63,374
- Assets
- $11,885
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MADELINE CHANDLER (PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE STANTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MADELINE CHANDLER (PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE STANTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAUL ASMUTH (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization was formed to plant a community forest at the city of st. Helena's wastewater plant. There are no salaries paid to individual board members and there are no paid staff. Contributions are raised through private donations to pay for the planting, irrigation, forest maintenance, insurance costs, banking, and licensing fees. All funding is invested in the costs of planting hundreds of redwood trees on property owned by the city of st. Helena's wastewater district.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's primary activity is the reforestation of land owned by the city of st. Helena's wastewater district. The reforested land serves as a community forest that offers environmental improvements, habitat restoration, sustainable redwood trees, and hiking trails.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 110.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.