Friedkin Conservation Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760438974
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7135803200
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-354,275
- Expenses
- $359
- Assets
- $86,125
- Liabilities
- $90
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Dan Friedkin (Chair, President & Director)
- Joshua R Holm (Vice President & Director)
People named in this filing
- Thomas Dan Friedkin (Chair, President & Director)
- Joshua R Holm (Vice President & Director)
- Paige Larrabee (Secretary)
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
Our mission is to protect and conserve this incomparable wilderness for future generations and improve our communities' social, economic, and environmental well-being.
What it reported doing in 2024
Friedkin Conservation Fund works to provide assistance to the Tanzanian government in conserving its protected areas, to help uplift rural communities, and to conduct wildlife monitoring and research.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -100.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 239.9; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -59% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- 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 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 24 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.