The Jonah Center for Earth and Art
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050610255
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Portland, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8603983771
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,199
- Expenses
- $123,444
- Assets
- $196,224
- Liabilities
- $4,049
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN HALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KRISHNA WINSTON (PRESIDENT)
- JONATHON MORRIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN HALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KRISHNA WINSTON (PRESIDENT)
- JONATHON MORRIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
Fostering more sustainable relationships between people, other creatures, energy resources and the environment through collaboration, education, community action, and art.
What it reported doing in 2025
Jonah center programsthe jonah center is a local environment advocacy and service organization, serving primarily middletown and portland, Connecticut. Our main programs advocate for 1) streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and trails to foster recreation and non-motorized transportation, 2) tree planting, open space preservation, wildlife habitat, litter cleanup, and removal of invasive plants, and 3) home energy efficiency.in all the areas listed, we either advocate for the municipality to adopt policies and programs consistent with the goals and to apply for state funding-e.g. To include "complete streets" projects to make streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians, or to support the urban forestry commission to plant street trees; or we take action ourselves (invasive plant removal, litter cleanup, encourage residents to take advantage of state home energy programs) sometimes with grant funding.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 35.4%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 83.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.