Tropical Landscape and Climate Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332192421
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fairbanks, AK, USA
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$184,441
Expenses
$89,293
Assets
$95,148

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rebecca Cole (Board of directors President)

People named in this filing

  • Rebecca Cole (Board of directors President)
  • Carl Schmitt (Board of directors Treasurer)
  • Leland Werden (Board of directors Secretary)

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

The purpose of the organization is to strengthen local capacity for environmental leadership through scientific research and educational support. Our foci include forest restoration and climate adaptation in Latin America specifically Costa Rica and Peru and surrounding areas.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conducted an extensive survey of forest restoration organizations throughout the Americas to determine the hiring practices and demographics when organizations receive funding for forest restoration. Survey was written by board member and a partner organization with a huge database of restoration organizations conducted the survey as part of our program. Several hundred organizations participated in the survey. The results will be used to increase awareness of hiring practices and success relationships.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.8%; rating input score 51
  • 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: 51.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 61; 61st 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 51/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.