The REED Center for Ecosystem Reintegration
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452729935
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Middletown, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015203431
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,014
- Expenses
- $107,380
- Assets
- $89,021
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Benjamin Fritton (President)
- Yangming Martin Lo (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Benjamin Fritton (President)
- Yangming Martin Lo (Vice President)
- Adam Stein (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 REED Center is a Maryland-based nonprofit that seeks to repair the holistic connection of humans and their environment through research, engaging communities in farm programming, developing self-perpetuating ecosystems, and designing natural landscapes on residential and commercial scales.
What it reported doing in 2024
Connecting humanity to the brilliance of nature.Repair the holistic connection of humans and their environment through research, engaging communities in farm programming, developing self-perpetuating ecosystems, and designing natural landscapes on residential and commercial scales.Our mission is Helping humanity reintegrate with thriving ecosystems by developing the most ecologically beneficial agricultural systems possible, meeting acute human needs while restoring community & planetary health.Using Research, Education, Experience, and Design to encourage the continuity, resilience and adaptability of thriving landscapes & communities.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and the available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- 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: 15.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 67.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.