Friends of Hoja Nueva
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474323459
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067557725
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $393,909
- Expenses
- $485,983
- Assets
- $2,519,463
- Liabilities
- $3,923
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bradley Lewis (President)
- Samantha Zwicker (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Bradley Lewis (President)
- Heidi Zwicker (Treasurer)
- Whitney Schaefer (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wildlife Preservation/Protection (D30)
What it reported doing in 2025
Our sister organization in Peru became a recognized rescue center with the highest level of permitting - the first in Peru to specialize in carnivores. Since late 2020 we've helped the rescue and rehabilitation of over 100 wild animals and maintained a 97% reintroduction success rate. The newly built center we helped build is naturally integrated into the rainforest and powered by renewable energy and innovative sustainability systems. We've created novel methods for the rehabilitation of threatened and keystone species that increase reintroduction success. We've been instrumental in shutting down several illegal zoos and trafficking operations in conjunction with local and federal authorities. We are currently protecting over 3000 hectares of primary rainforest. We have helped to create dozens of local job opportunities, stimulating a conservation-based economy in Las Piedras. We have assisted dozens of local and international students in their studies and to gain practical conservation experience, supporting the next generation of conservationists. We've supported the acquisition of land for a dog/cat rescue center in Madre de Dios, that will focus on spay/neuter programs and disease prevention.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.18; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $476K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.