Beaver Institute
Legal name: Beaver Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822197466
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Southampton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4136950484
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $354,286
- Expenses
- $310,333
- Assets
- $386,441
- Liabilities
- $9,530
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Callahan (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Adam Burnett (Executive Dir.): $92,968 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Beaver Institute’s vision is to restore ecological balance with beavers; its mission is to advance beaver management and watershed restoration, train mitigation professionals, support scientific research, increase public appreciation of beavers’ role in creating climate resilient ecosystems, and resolve beaver-human conflicts in a science-based manner.
What it reported doing in 2024
Maintained a social media presence to raise beaver awareness reaching over 3000 website visitors per month. Emailed self-help information in response to hundreds of beaver inquiries. BeaverCorps Training Program accepted 12 additional trainees and many started installing their first flow devices. Social media presence continued with numerous posts on Facebook, Instagram and the organization's website. Administered the Beaver Management Forum, a Facebook discussion group with over 1400 members. Launched the Connecticut Beaver Initiative, a landowner assistance grant program, to resolve beaver problems non lethally in Connecticut with the financial assistance from the John A. and Jane T. Wiederhold Foundation. Organized the Beaver Climate Coalition group of like-missioned organizations regarding the climate benefits of beaver wetlands.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $38.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $253K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.