The Wellspring Commons Stewards Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921325951
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Litchfield, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8609217678
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,778
- Expenses
- $36,442
- Assets
- $30,567
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keetu Winter (President & ED)
People named in this filing
- Keetu Winter (President & ED)
- Cherry Liley (Secretary)
- Susan Masino (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
Education and community building to support the wellbeing of people and the planet.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education and Community BuildingThis program builds community capacity for collaboration towards biodiversity and ecosystem protection across the Northeastern U.S. In 2024, the program offered 20 educational eventsincluding workshops, panels, convenings, and an immersive experienceserving 131 representatives of organizations, individual practitioners, and members of the public. The creation of a Collaborative Cohort supported network development and a shared learning process for regional practitioners in conservation, agriculture, and environmental health, facilitating collaboration toward watershed-scale land protection and regeneration. The Forest Festival engaged the broader public through workshops and outdoor programming that highlighted the ecological, economic, and cultural importance of healthy forested ecosystems. In 2024, the Wellspring Commons Stewards co-launched the Northeast Woodlands Bioregioning Collective, bringing together over 20 organizations, practitioners, and Indigenous leaders to collaborate on shared approaches to regional stewardship and explore strategies for financing regenerative projects.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
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: 44.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.