Conservation Hawks Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452806335
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Bigfork, MT, USA
Phone
4067925545
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,550
Expenses
$40,791
Assets
$49,022

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE MCFARLAND (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEVE MCFARLAND (PRESIDENT)
  • RICHMOND HOLDEN (VICE PRESIDE)
  • CHRISTOPHER TANNER (TREASURER)

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

As hunters & anglers, our mission is to defend our sporting heritage and pass on a healthy natural world to future generations of americans.

What it reported doing in 2025

Shared the science of the impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife and their habitats, the effects climate change has on public hunting and fishing throughout the u.s. Advise state and federal wildlife and land agencies on climate change impacts on management strategies and practices. Conservation hawks continued its ongoing web-based and media efforts to educate and engage americas sportsmen and women on the threat they face from anthropogenic (human caused) climate change in 2025. This included regular an average of four to five times per week factual, and science-based news and outreach to hunters & anglers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2,531.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 63.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.