Liabilities / Assets
57th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Cloud Forest Institute
990EZ • Fiscal year 2019 • EIN 77-0480093
Siviq Scores
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
0.00x
Liabilities / Revenue
57th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Net Margin
3rd percentile
Higher net margin than 3% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
80th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 80% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 19.1% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
6th percentile
Faster asset growth than 6% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
7th percentile
Faster revenue growth than 7% of similar nonprofits.
Balance Sheet
Assets
Down$39,532
Down $73,271 (-65%) from 2018
Net Assets
Down$39,532
Down $73,271 (-65%) from 2018
Liabilities
Flat$0
Flat from 2018
Revenue And Expenses
Revenue
Down$39,750
Down $62,057 (-61%) from 2018
Expenses
Up$113,021
Up $46,358 (+70%) from 2018
Net Income
Down-$73,271
Down $108,415 (-308%) from 2018
Historical Trend
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Filing Snapshot
- Filing Period
- Jan 1, 2019 to Dec 31, 2019
- Signed
- May 9, 2020
- Return Version
- 2019v5.0
- Gross Receipts
- $39,750
Mission and Program Overview
Mission
Cloud Forest Institute is an educational and scientific non profit corporation. Through environmental education, forest conservation and community development Cloud Forest Institute (CFI) encourages communities to regain balance within ecological systems.
Cloud Forest Institute is an educational and scientific non profit corporation. CFI encourages bioregional endeavors to re-establish balance within ecological systems by way of environmental education, forest reciprocity and resilient community development
Program Services
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| CFI sponsors the campaign to raise funds to rebuild the Himalayan English Boarding School that was demolished by earthquakes shortly after it opened in 2014. The boarding school serves up to 200 children, some of them orphans. It will help stem the tide of language and cultural extinction of the Sherpa people of Tibetan descent living in the Himalayan region of Nepal. The only school located in rural Lukla it gives parents in the region the option of keeping the children home rather then sending them away to boarding schools in Kathmandu where they assimilate into modern western culture and lose their local language, customs, and family connections. The Himalayan English Boarding School will help prevent the Sherpa language from disappearing by the end of this generation as predicted. HEBS began it's final phase of reconstruction in 2019 and has partically re-opened. | $39,703 | $39,703 |
| Donations of gift cards and equipment to evacuees of the 2018 catastrophic fire in Paradise California. | $20,367 | $20,367 |
| The Forest Reciprocity Group (FRG) has developed a replicable organizational model to provide for firesafe landscapes and firesafe buildings through reducing fire-fuel loads and utilizing the materials from those efforts to build low-carbon embodied buildings. FRG aims to employ those to: Restore forests to fire resilient ecosystems for the health of the planet; Thin small diameter trees to reduce catastrophic fire fuel loads and increase long-range carbon sequestering; Utilize and sell small poles and small-pole milled lumber from forest restoration to build fire-safe housing. The populations who benefit from our work are those communities comprised of both rural and populated areas where conventional forestry practices have left a legacy of overburdened forests with a resulting catastrophic fire risk, and high unemployment. These populations are also in need of locally sourced fire-resilient homes. One important sub-population within these communities who will benefit from our work is the underemployed of all ages, because the key economic development component of FRG seeks to provide marketable skills and viable careers in the areas of fire fuels management, materials transportation and processing, design and architecture, carpentry, and construction. Perhaps the greatest benefit will be to the global community by addressing two significant contributors of greenhouse gas. Our first core goal is to collaborate with communities, with the goal of tending forests for health and fire resilience including restoration of waterways and protection of human settlements. In reciprocity, communities are provided with an abundance of superior materials to build fire-resistant homes and ecological housing developments thereby, providing jobs and revitalizing local economies. Our second core goal is to build the Natural Building Arts & Innovation Center, which will serve as the hub for education, outreach, training, materials processing, and events for our region and beyond. FRG recognizes that this economic development model is replicable in all forested regions across the country and even the globe. The Metta Foundation has offered their land in Ukiah, CA to develop this center for innovative small pole use and to initiate reciprocity-based industries. Activities, infrastructure and models planned for this center are Prototype Engineered Pole Structure Kits, Forest By-product Processing Facilities, Woodworking and Furniture Demonstration Workshops, Natural Building Demonstration Workshops, Meeting Spaces & Job Training, Warehouse, Event Stage, and Gardens, Obtain Small-Diameter Pole Lumber Stamp Certification Acceptance. In 2019 FRG conducted a year of educational outreach including the development of a web presence, informational brochure, newsletter with 150 subscribers, presentations at two national conferences, 7 regional PowerPoint presentations for Tribes, governmental agencies, and community advisory groups, 2 handson workshops attended by 100 participants, the structural engineering for a round-pole based, timber-frame kit, and developed site plans for the Natural Building Arts & Innovation Center. www.forestreciprocity.org features information on how climatic changes further affect our overburdened forests and highlight the solution-based approach to remediating the severity of these conditions. It features videos of community engagement and cooperation at our "pole-frame raising" workshops, a hands-on opportunity to assemble one of the preengineered timber frame designs, demonstrating the techniques of building fire resistant homes utilizing small log materials from fire fuels reduction efforts. Due to the popularity of our vision gained through the educational outreach efforts, FRG was featured in local newspapers and radio interviews, invited to speak at events and participate in round table discussions with representative from U.S. Forest Service, CalFire, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, regional Fire Safe Councils, forest landowners, and other stakeholders. | $10,950 | $10,950 |
| Ometepe Sustainability Group develops and implements sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice to children and families on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Three related projects will raise the ability of the people on the island to create their own abundance and reduce their severe poverty. Children and families on this double-volcano island of Ometepe, now devastated by political unrest and tropical storms, have few resources with which to develop their amazing work ethic and cultural strengths. This project works in partnership with local communities to sustainably develop markets that can feed families help them to educate their children thereby creating a pathway to increased prosperity while respecting local cultural values and social institutions. The Group has started three support projects, a local farmer's market program, Market Money coupons (30 cents each) are distributed to children to buy food and school supplies at the market. These coupons also guarantee some money to the vendors in a cash-poor economy, as they learn marketing skills. Transportation is provided to and from outlying villages so that buyers and sellers can get to the market and back in one day. Organic and sustainable agricultural practices are mentored and supported, which will provide more food and will increase the products they can sell. Partnering with schools to teach business skills. Liaisons will assist teachers to develop courses in marketing, basic accounting, English classes and hospitality management, using the farmer's market as a classroom. The first step is to providing solar reading lights to each child and books to encourage learning. | $8,773 | $8,773 |
| The Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group endeavors to foster the planning and implementation of an integrative and viable natural restoration of the Georgia Pacific mill site in Fort Bragg, California. Following the Hanover Principles, which includes creating long term value, eliminating waste and relying on natural energy flows, the group is dedicated to creating a diverse, multi-use public/private project to serve as a model development for communities around the world. | $5,000 | $2,050 |
| Project Northwoods works to conserve the ecology and culture of the Wisconsin Northwoods through education, research and global outreach. Our programs educate students of all ages, including early learners, K-12, college students and adults. Research projects utilize the knowledge of locals and long-time seasonal visitors and benefit the many threatened and endangered species of flora and fauna that are found in the Northwoods, some of which have geographic ranges no larger than the boundaries of these specific forests. Outreach programs educate people from around the world, especially focusing on tourists to the area, about the importance of these forests, the native species and the rich cultures found throughout the area. Any opportunity to get people outside and appreciating the out-of-doors will be utilized to teach about our local environment and its role in the global ecological community. | $1,841 | $1,841 |
Compensation and Service Providers
Employees
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Burnstad | Treasurer | PT | $7,600 | - | $7,600 |
| Charles Payne | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Alex Fournier | Secretary | - | $0 | - | - |
| Kyra Rice | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Govinda Dalton | President | - | $0 | - | - |
| Michael Garver | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
Filing and Contact Details
Filer
- Filer Name
- Cloud Forest Institute
- EIN
- 77-0480093
- Phone
- 7078953243
- Address
- PO Box 73, Boonville, CA 95415
Signing Officer
- Name
- Jenny Burnstad
- Title
- Treasurer
- Phone
- 7078953243
- Signed
- 2020-05-09
Supplemental Narrative
Additional Explanations
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10
“Anderson Valley Foodshed 1687, Los Cedros Biological Reserve 4260, Not So Simple Living Fair 2142, Ometepe Sustainability Project, 8773, Paradise Fire Relief Victims Fund 20367, Project North Woods 1841, SherpaCares Himalayan English Boarding School 39703, Ukiah Bicycle Kitchen 593, Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe 500, Yurok Indian Tribe 860, Cob Research Institute 300, Space Treaty Project 264, Mendocino Environmental Center 1624, Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group 2050. Forest Reciprocity Group 10950”
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16
“Insurance 1250, Internet 543”
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| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 1 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 |
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2019 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
- Assets
- $39,532
- Liabilities
- $0
- Net assets
- $39,532
- Revenue
- $39,750
- Expenses
- $113,021
- Net income
- -$73,271