Conservation Beyond Borders Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743255958
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-PF 2022, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Minnetonka, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128178080
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,940
- Expenses
- $43,817
- Assets
- $140,746
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE BENJAMIN FINK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NICOLE BENJAMIN FINK (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN K REILLY (DIRECTOR)
- RICK DIAMOND (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote collaborative education and research designed to benefit local communities and optimize ecosystem management and integrity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Anti-poaching workshops and research - anti-poaching workshops were done with governmental officials, reserve managers, wildlife rangers, and wildlife-wildlife conflict resolution personal in rwanda and uganda with the objective to create conservation guidelines and frameworks for mountain gorillas. In 2024, rhinos, cheetahs and lions were introduced into habitats where they have previously gone extinct, mainly due to poaching and hwc throughout africa and india. In depth conversations with reformed poachers, law enforcement, gorilla rangers, and community members yield a deeper understanding of incentives that can promote conversation, in addition to challenges that serve to solve conservation shortcomings in effective frameworks. Practices such as dehorning rhinos, microchipping tigers, and collaring elephants, cheetahs, and lions were employed with the goal of removing the incentive to poach and increasing the effectiveness of conservation strategies.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
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: 23%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.21; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $43K 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: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.