Ames Izaak Walton League

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
426078443
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Ames, IA, USA
Phone
5152311546
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,087
Expenses
$41,889
Assets
$204,751

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AARON KESTER (Vice President)
  • ROGER ELLIOT (President)
  • BILL SCOTT (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • JACOB STROHM (Secretary)
  • TOD BERTRAM (Treasurer)
  • MARK ROBSON (Director)

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

Natural resource conservation, education, and recreation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Promoted natural resource conservation, education, and recreation by offering a variety of outdoor activities and maintaining the necessary facilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.2%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.89; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.2% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.