This Spaceship Earth Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475532352
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Highland Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7739915199
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Physical & Earth Sciences,
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $69,717
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- DAVID E HOULE (Director)
- WILLIAM TIMOTHY RUMAGE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This Spaceship Earth is a global organization whose mission is to overcome the challenges of climate change and re-establish a balanced relationship between humanity, the planet and the systems that sustain them.
What it reported doing in 2025
This Spaceship Earth is a global organization whose missionis to overcome the challenges of climate change and re-establish a balanced relationship between humanity, the planet, and the systems that sustain them.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: 40.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.