Alabama Wildlife Federation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630496911
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Millbrook, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3342854550
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,467,729
- Expenses
- $3,952,011
- Assets
- $22,650,099
- Liabilities
- $5,856,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
59 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BO CROSS (3RD VICE PRESIDENT)
- JACK DARNALL (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN MCKINSTRY (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- TIM WOOD (PRESIDENT)
- TIM GOTHARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TIM GOTHARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $273,392 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the conservation of Alabama's wildlife and related natural resources as a basis for the social and economic prosperity of present and future generations through the use and responsible stewardship of our wildlife, forests, fish, soils, water and air.
What it reported doing in 2024
Alabama wildlife federation's largest program consists of all programs and services used in promoting and protecting wildlife conservations efforts, which consists of two main branches. Wildlife conservation programs - programs designed to promote and assist in land and wildlife conservation research and habitat management. Conservation education - includes the various activities and expenditures designed to educate the general public and to promote the federation's objectives in the perservation and conservation of Alabama lands and wildlife (i.e. Conservation program scholarships, workshops, lectures, seminars, and awards).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.73; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 58 of 58 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $273K · 59 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.