Friends of Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411732084
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rochert, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2188441767
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,345
- Expenses
- $139,072
- Assets
- $147,333
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VALERIE ALLAND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BILL HENKE (PAST PRESIDE)
- SUE BRAUN (DIRECTOR)
- DAVE SCHNEIDER (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
Education & participation for youth & general public relative to environmental activities at national wildlife refuge .
What it reported doing in 2024
Environmental education for youth & schools
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.7%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 66.2%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 61; 61st 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: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.7% of revenue deployed · 66.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.