Energy and Wildlife Action Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990642672
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025085093
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,979,303
- Expenses
- $1,642,943
- Assets
- $646,847
- Liabilities
- $310,487
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MCIVOR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- JOHN ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $356,332 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ewac's primary purpose is to support and assist its members' actions to comply with federal wildlife laws, including the endangered species act (esa), the migratory bird treaty act (mbta), and the bald and golden eagle protection act (bgepa). The fundamental goals of ewac are to evaluate, develop, and promote sound environmental policies for federally protected wildlife and closely related natural resources while ensuring the continued generation and transmission of reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean electricity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Esa technical committee - focused on evaluating policy proposals associated with the esa, and developing and advocating for sensible recommendations to amend those proposals, and proactively advocating for additional regulatory actions beyond those being purused by the u.s. Fish and wildlife service. Supporting efforts designed to voluntarily advance species conservation in connection with electric infrastructure development and operations (including but not limited to implementation of the programmatic monarch butterfly candidate conservation agreement with assurances, and development of a companion programmatic bumble bee conservation benefit agreement).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $356K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $990K reported
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.