Conservation Confluence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994604483
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- The Plains, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5402535170
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $385,979
- Expenses
- $315,207
- Assets
- $154,482
- Liabilities
- $48,046
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wendy C Willis (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Wendy C Willis (Chief Executive Officer): $59,667 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Charitable. Conservation Confluence provides manpower, expertise, and resources to strengthen local conservation nonprofit organizations filling the gap in globally significant protected area management and restoration.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Conservation Capacity Building Program ($37,920 in expenses): this is the bulk of our work. It includes high level fundraising training and assistance, protected area reserve design, planning and budgeting input, and improving organizational and financial systems to meet global standards of Best Management Practices. This work was provided to eight Latin American non-profit partners with whom we have a Memorandum of Understanding signed. 2. Resilient Protected Areas ($6634) support for long-term management of Bolivian national parks and protected areas. 3. Working Watersheds ($6711): ensuring water sources generation by protected areas are used sustainably. Communications ($6451): building Confluence and partners communication programs to inform, educate and inspire public support of protected area conservation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 45%; rating input score 45; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 115.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 125% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $297K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.