Friends of Anan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333981421
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,532
- Expenses
- $8,241
- Assets
- $96,291
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dee Galla (President)
- Danielle Chi (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dee Galla (President)
- Brian Reggiani (Treasurer Secretary)
- Erin Galla (Director)
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
The mission of Friends of Anan is to support educate and advocate for the preservation and sustainable management of the Anan Wildlife Observatory and its surrounding ecosystem including the Tongass National Forest.
What it reported doing in 2025
Friends of Anan supports the preservation and public enjoyment of the Anan Wildlife Observatory one of the most prolific black and brown bear observation sites in Southeast Alaska. Located in the Tongass National Forest near Wrangell Alaska Anan provides visitors with a rare opportunity to observe bears in their natural habitat during the annual pink salmon run. During the fiscal year Friends of Anan worked to enhance visitor experiences support wildlife education and promote conservation awareness. Activities included the development of educational materials community outreach and fundraising efforts to support observatory infrastructure and programming. The organization also established its web presence and brand identity to expand its reach and grow its membership base. We interacted with over one million online viewers and 2,500 in person visitors to the site.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 100
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 92.1%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.68; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd 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: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.