Camp Wildernest Wildlife Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871734027
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4235933932
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,562
- Expenses
- $148,490
- Assets
- $54,048
- 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
- SHERRY TEAS (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
- CHERIE MARTINEZ (VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SHERRY TEAS (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
- CHERIE MARTINEZ (VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
- MICHAEL TEAS (TREASURER AND 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
Camp wildernest is dedicated to sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife by giving them a second chance through rescue, rehabilitation, and release back into their natural habitats.
What it reported doing in 2025
Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of sick and orphaned wildlife back to their natural habitats
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.