The Sierra-Cascade Land Trust Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020706804
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Nevada City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5309139037
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,032
- Expenses
- $6,191
- Assets
- $63,698
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNTHIA PERRINE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ERIN TARR (PRESIDENT)
- CYNTHIA PERRINE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRIDGET FITHIAN (DIRECTOR)
- MARK DREW (DIRECTOR)
- HEIDI KROLICK (DIRECTOR)
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 sierra cascade land trust council is a network of land trusts acting as a collective voice in this diverse region to support the pace, scale, and permanence
What it reported doing in 2024
Sierra conservation action plan identifies priorityconservation actions across the region for publicfunding
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.1%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 69.1%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.29; rating input score 92; 92nd 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: -14.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.1% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.