The Longbranch Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811147078
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Lakebay, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2532359009
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,716
- Expenses
- $39,353
- Assets
- $224,844
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sheryl Low (President)
People named in this filing
- Sheryl Low (President)
- Jim Hettinger (Treasurer)
- Ashley Perry (Secretary)
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
To Inspire Collaboration and Generosity in Order to Promote Educational Opportunities, to Maintain the Areas History and to Improve the Natural Environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholarship Programs: Evergreen Elementary, Peninsula Middle School, and Peninsula Hawks Scholarship.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 58.7%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.71; rating input score 86; 86th 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: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 58.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.