The Sustainability Nexus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454939557
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sinking Spring, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2158163190
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,670
- Expenses
- $79,720
- Assets
- $113,398
- Liabilities
- $827
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARCUS SHEFFER (BOARD CO-PRE)
- SHANNON MURPHY (BOARD CO-PRE)
- JOHN BOECKER (BOARD TREASU)
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
Enable system-change-makers to step into new levels of capability and affectiveness in creative new ways
What it reported doing in 2025
Ramboland (and the glassmeyer farm at ramboland) - demonstration project and living laboratory for operation and education around urban universal design, deep green design, and socially just and resilient communities. Includes a 400,000 home with a teaching kitchen, a 600,000 farm throughout the site and nearby neighborhood, in numerous local and international thought leader partners. Project site is located at 718 e mifflin street, lancaster, pa 17602. Having received over 300,000 in in-kind donations of world-leading consulting services, and having launched our new, innovative, educational website, the team us focusing on articles related to accessibility and green building, to bolster outreach to both more aligned local funders than previously approached, and to politicians at state and local levels whose platforms match well with ramboland, with interest in the concepts in ramboland serving as part of the implementation plans for food access, climate change adaptation, and resiliency goals for lancaster city. We are also starting to approach more established non-profits as potential partners more suited to securing grants, who can then distribute portions to the project, rather just seeking them ourselves directly. Final site testing occurred in spring of 2024, and historic review for a certificate of appropriateness was awarded in july. Land donation was in process in late 2024 and completed in 2025. The volunteer team is finishing final tasks in preparation for land development and building code submittals, the goal being to submit this spring.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.