Arkansas Wildlife Federation
Legal name: Arkansas Wildlife Federation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 716059226
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Farmington, AR, US
- Phone
- 4796016646
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,749
- Expenses
- $428,839
- Assets
- $384,160
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA BROGDON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AMANDA BROGDON (PRESIDENT)
- MANDY CLARK-RUSSELL (DIRECTOR)
- CHRIS COLCLASURE (EX OFFICIO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To conserve Arkansas's wildlife and wild places through education, advocacy, and on-the-ground conservation programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization works with conservation partners across the state, including other nonprofit organizations as well as government agencies, to advance programs and initiatives that protect wildlife and their habitats in Arkansas. This work also includes meeting with elected officials to educate them about wildlife issues. The organization publishes a quarterly magazine, Arkansas out-of-doors, which highlights wildlife issues in the state and provides information and resources for private citizens. The annual wildlife of Arkansas student art contest administered by the organization engages hundreds of teachers and students from across the state each year. The organization also recognizes groups and individuals for outstanding contributions to wildlife conservation through annual presentation of conservation achievement awards. The organization launched a new private lands leadership academy in 2025, advancing the conservation of habitat and protection of wildlife on private lands in Arkansas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -158.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $393K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.