Status and standing
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Where the money goes
What each dollar paid for.
Statement of Functional Expenses
Financial health
Is it on solid ground?
Summary of the Filing
| FY2020 | $85K |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | $145K |
| FY2022 | $40K |
| FY2023 | $24K |
| FY2024 | $38K |
| FY2020 | $156K |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | $322K |
| FY2022 | $429K |
| FY2023 | $496K |
| FY2024 | $454K |
Balance Sheet
Statement of Revenue
Financial Metrics
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
| Metric | This org | Peer median | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program ratio | 91% | — | — |
| Overhead ratio | 6% | — | — |
| Fundraising cost ratio | 4% | — | — |
| Investment management fee ratio | 0.03% | — | — |
| Legal fee ratio | 0% | — | — |
| Accounting fee ratio | 3% | — | — |
| Fundraising fee ratio | 0% | — | — |
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Leadership and pay
Who runs it, and what are they paid?
Officers, Directors & Key Employees
Niyanta Spelman’s $40K as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member is at the 23rd percentile of top reported officer pay among 1990 $100K–1M environment nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 1 named individual · Part VII
| Name | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niyanta Spelman | $40,000 | $40,000 | $32,500 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Governance & Policies
- 5Voting board membersPt VI · Ln 1a
- 4Independent board membersPt VI · Ln 1b
- Conflict-of-interest policyPt VI · Ln 12aYes
- Whistleblower policyPt VI · Ln 13Yes
- Document retention policyPt VI · Ln 14Yes
- Top official’s pay independently reviewedPt VI · Ln 15aYes
- Family or business ties among leadersPt VI · Ln 2No
Mission and programs
What it does.
Empowering communities to protect and regenerate rainforests through sustainable livelihoods.
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Where the work happens
Program Code
Tropical Andes Ecosystem - Rainforest Partnership's projects conserved and better protected around 1,131,743 acres of tropical forest in the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot. We worked in three regions of the Peruvian Tropical Andes: Amazonas, Junín, and Ayacucho.
Program Code
Lowland Amazon Rainforest and Other Tropical Forests Ecosystems - Rainforest Partnership's work in the Western Amazon is in the Loreto and Ucayali regions of Peru and the Sucumbios and Orellana provinces in Ecuador.
Program Code
Global Outreach and Engagement - Rainforest Partnership acts as a founder and convener of several global events and programs that activate a broad coalition of people for the protection of the world's tropical forests. These include: (1) World Rainforest Day, created by RP in 2017, to ignite collective action to protect tropical forests.
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Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
Filing history
Every return on file.
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Change | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest | $312K | $256K | +7% | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $290K | $379K | -52% | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $602K | $814K | +29% | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $467K | $560K | +124% | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 Viewing | $208K | $286K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
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