Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
134088762
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
San Anselmo, CA, USA
Phone
0000000000
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,954
Expenses
$87,150
Assets
$120,724
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Wayne Sentman (President Director)
  • Helen Dunlap (Vice President Director)

People named in this filing

  • Wayne Sentman (President Director)
  • Helen Dunlap (Vice President Director)
  • William Levin (Secretary 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Founded in 1999 the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to help conserve protect and restore the biological diversity historical legacy and cultural heritage of Kuaihelani Midway Atoll

What it reported doing in 2024

Annual albatross nest census The annual nesting albatross census team 10 to 12 volunteers on Midway Atoll provides vital information found in few places on earth to researchers managers conservation groups and the global community interested in preserving and protecting oceanic seabirds and their nesting habitats Since 1991 the annual census of black-footed albatrosses or Kaupu Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan albatrosses or Ml Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll has provided accurate information regarding the numbers of nesting albatross pairs at Midway Atoll This long-term dataset has become increasingly valuable since nesting sites on other Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Kamole or Laysan Island and Lalo or French Frigate Shoals are not easily accessible Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge provides for the worlds largest breeding colony of Laysan and black-footed albatrosses in the world The Friends of Midway Atoll supported this intensive and expensive scientific collection of valuable data in 2025 as well as in years past

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% 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

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: 53
  • 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: 0.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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.

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.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.