Coastal Bend Wildlife Habitat Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200960059
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Corpus Christi, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3618819316
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,176
- Expenses
- $82,747
- Assets
- $119,148
- Liabilities
- $2,507
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELLE ORCUTT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHELLE ORCUTT (PRESIDENT)
- HARRIET PARKER (VICE PRESIDE)
- BRUCE HOFFMAN (PAST PRESIDE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission is to create an atmosphere of cooperation among businesses, private landowners, and wildlife photographers, where all participants benefit while promoting the conservation and protection of wildlife and habitat. This unique collaboration promotes awareness of the need for conservation and protection of the wildlife and habitat in the newly expanded sixteen counties surrounding corpus christi, Texas. Funding is made possible by individuals, foundations, and businesses that want to preserve the beauty of their community through sponsorships. The purpose of the coastal bend wildlife photo contest is to create an atmosphere of cooperation among businesses, private land owners, wildlife photographers and the community in general to promote awareness of the need for conservation and protection of wildlife and habitat in 14 counties surrounding corpus christi, Texas. The photo contest supports programs that are aimed at bringing awareness to youth about the vastness and variety of
What it reported doing in 2024
The wildlife photo contest promotes conservation and the importance of protecting native wildlife. This achievement is accomplished and communicated through photographs. The photographs resulting from the photo contest are the basis of a book which is available for sale and educates the public of the unique and beautiful wildlife of our region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
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: 32.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.