For the Love of Primates

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 833017008
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2023–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location: Crooksville, OH, USA
Phone: 0000000000
Rating: 44
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue: $151,780
Expenses: $281,438
Assets: $482,544
Liabilities: $233,600

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Tessa Wilde (Executive Director)
Madelyn Green (Board President)
Melissa Renner (Board Vice President)

People named in this filing

Tessa Wilde (Executive Director)
Madelyn Green (Board President)
Melissa Renner (Board Vice President)

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

For the Love of Primates works to create a sanctuary for primates retired from laboratory research or previously kept as pets It also provides free primate-centered STEM educational programs for children specifically targeting those from communities and minorities typically underrepresented in the sciences

What it reported doing in 2025

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 0
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 25
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: -85.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 3 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.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.