The Fertile Grounds Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208542380
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6463382696
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $2,290
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONAH CANNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JONAH CANNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- REBECCA RAIK (TREASURER & SECRETARY)
- JESSICA KLEIN (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization works with schools, communities, and families to create educational programming that addresses the key needs of a student population that is at risk of being given up on. The organization's programs offer these young people a supportive environment and the opportunity to face challenges and take ownership over their own educations, identities, and lives.
What it reported doing in 2017
Fertile grounds project, operating in the New York area, fosters education of young people by creating opportunities for students and supplementing their learning experience. Fertile grounds has initiated and currently operates several programs, including camp kadia, the hallway project, the year round project, and the survival project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 3
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: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: -51.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -57.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2017
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.