Arkansas Master Naturalists
Legal name: Arkansas Master Naturalists Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261565984
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Bella Vista, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4792688325
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,659
- Expenses
- $60,515
- Assets
- $240,819
- 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
- Dave Leisure (President)
People named in this filing
- Dave Leisure (President)
- Diane Brownlee (Secretary)
- JB Portillo (Treasurer)
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 develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach, and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
We logged 47,799 hours - 18% of our hours devoted to State Agencies such as State Parks, AR Fish and Game, AR National Heritage Commission, etc. - TOTAL STATE - 8,407 hours. 74% to local agencies and properties such as city and county parks, libraries, museums, gardens, schools, trails, and highways. TOTAL LOCAL 35,373 Hours. 8% to National Agencies such as Buffalo National River, US Forestry Service - TOTAL NATIONAL 4019 hours. AMN performs similar services in all locations, including, but not limited to, trail maintenance, water quality testing, trash pickup, and clean-up campaigns, as needed. To promote butterfly, pollinator, and wildlife habitats, we cultivate native plants for use in public locations and as part of restoration projects.Excess plants are donated or sold to raise funds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.98; rating input score 80; 80th 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: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.