Badlands Conservation Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450461922
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7014501631
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,108
- Expenses
- $138,138
- Assets
- $90,700
- Liabilities
- $1,852
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- SHANNON STRAIGHT (EXECUTIVE DI)
- GRAHAM SWENSON (MARKETING DI)
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
The badlands conservation alliance is a voice for wild nd places
What it reported doing in 2025
With 25 years serving North Dakota we are a respected non profit for scrappy, grassroots conservation work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.2%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.2% of revenue deployed · 31.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.