Tennessee Ecological Restoration Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852311111
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, USA
- Phone
- 2699080573
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,250
- Expenses
- $70,771
- Assets
- $44,781
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANGEL FOWLER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANGEL FOWLER (PRESIDENT)
- MATT CLABAUGH (SECRETARY)
- DANIEL INGRAM (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
Tennessee ecological restoration association, a Tennessee nonprofit corporation ('tera'), is organized and operated exclusively to receive, administer, and expend funds to promote and represent the common business interests and improve business conditions among its members within the meaning of section 501(c)(6) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. Tera's membership is comprised of a group of mitigation providers and environmental and engineering consulting firms who aim to work together to promote the private mitigation industry in Tennessee. Tera provides a forum for its members to exchange ideas and information and to have a unified voice for input on regulatory procedure and practice. Tera's activities are focused on (1) developing and implementing restoration science, (2) promoting best practices to accomplish restoration, 3) developing, implementing, and informing positive policy initiatives and guidance and (4) collaborating with regulatory agencies and stakeholders
What it reported doing in 2025
Tennessee ecological restoration association, a Tennessee nonprofit corporation ('tera'), is organized and operated exclusively to receive, administer, and expend funds to promote and represent the common business interests and improve business conditions among its members within the meaning of section 501(c)(6) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. Tera's membership is comprised of a group of mitigation providers and environmental and engineering consulting firms who aim to work together to promote the private mitigation industry in Tennessee. Tera provides a forum for its members to exchange ideas and information and to have a unified voice for input on regulatory procedure and practice. Tera's activities are focused on (1) developing and implementing restoration science, (2) promoting best practices to accomplish restoration, 3) developing, implementing, and informing positive policy initiatives and guidance and (4) collaborating with regulatory agencies and stakeholders in tennesse to ensure ecological restoration thrives in Tennessee by establishing sound policy that is enforced and thereby results in consistency among all restoration practitioners. Tera also enables its members to have access to the latest updates on policies affecting the business of mitigation and restoration and to the latest news and events affecting the industry by, in part, distributing Tennessee state regulatory, policy, and technical information to its members. Tera's activities are funded by dues paid by its members, and such activities are conducted in Tennessee.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 24
- 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: -40.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
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 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.