Village Earth
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841243878
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9702373002
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $332,554
- Expenses
- $372,831
- Assets
- $33,258
- Liabilities
- $6,060
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AUDE CHESNAIS (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AUDE CHESNAIS (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $73,238 total reported compensation
- ANTONETTE BARTECCHI (VICE CHAIR): $11,200 total reported compensation
- LAUREN DITTMANN (TREASURER (SINCE 4/22/2025)): $1,269 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Village earth helps reconnect communities to the resources that promote human well-being by enhancing social and political empowerment, community self-reliance and self-determination. We do this by strengthening intermediate and grassroots organizations through fiscal sponsorship, networking, training, research and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Training and consulting in sustainable community development - training and consulting in sustainable community development - training community workers in community-based development and strengthening intermediate and grassroots organizations through networking, training, research, and advocacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $255K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.