American Wagyu Heritage Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333025227
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 7164796624
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,179
- Expenses
- $8,002
- Assets
- $53,177
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adam Wackel (President)
- Sheila Patinkin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Pamela Armstrong (Treasurer)
- Adam Wackel (President)
- Sheila Patinkin (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support the American agricultural landscape by providing scholarships, research, and educational resources dedicated to the heritage, welfare, and historical preservation of Wagyu cattle.
What it reported doing in 2025
In an effort to preserve the history of Wagyu cattle in the US, we obtained dozens of original registration documents from Wagyu cattle imported into the United States from Japan prior to the Japanese ban on exportation of Wagyu cattle and genetics. We also obtained videos of the original Japanese Wagyu imports in Japan prior to exportation. The historical documents, photographs and videos were used to established a centralized, online, public database (online museum) of heritage records to preserve the historic lineage of Wagyu cattle. A carcass data research project is underway and scholarships plan to be awarded.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.2%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 25.7%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 86.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.65; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.2% of revenue deployed · 25.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.