Alamo Animal Encounters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844550911
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Atascosa, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2106435670
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $421,016
- Expenses
- $338,754
- Assets
- $122,520
- Liabilities
- $1,350
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER PHILLIPS (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT TREJO (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER PHILLIPS (PRESIDENT): $59,500 total reported compensation
- ROBERT TREJO (VICE PRESIDENT): $5,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of zoomagination is to foster love and respect for the animals that share our world by providing healing, refuge, community education, and advocacy to meet the needs of unwanted, abandoned, and surrendered exotic animals and displaced indigenous wildlife.
What it reported doing in 2023
Caring for exotic animals on our ranch: all of the animals that we bring to mobile zoo animal education programs live on our zoomagination ranch. Zoomagination currently cares for 35+ animals on our ranch, including two-toed sloths, american alligators, an african-crested porcupine, pythons, macaws, cockatoos, owls, kinkajous, bearded dragons, red-tailed boa constrictors, a blue-tongued skink, a peregrine x barbary falcon, and a mexican red-knee tarantula. Many of these animals are donated to zoomagination from locally- and nationally-based zoos that do not have the resources to care for these animals, as well as other wildlife rescue organizations and nonprofits. If zoomagination had not accepted some of these animals to our ranch, they may have been euthanized. Additionally, we have fostered several kinds of animals until they found their forever homes, including kangaroos, wallabies, warthogs, and foxes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 50
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 98.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $308K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $152K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.