Friends of the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043297894
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Mashpee, MA, USA
Phone
5082923707
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,895
Expenses
$39,312
Assets
$49,256
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Glenn Davis (Co-President, Co-Treasurer)
  • MaryKay Fox (Co-President, Co-Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Glenn Davis (Co-President, Co-Treasurer)
  • Lucinda Keith (Clerk, Membership Committee, Fundraiser, AmeriCorps Coordinator)
  • MaryKay Fox (Co-President, Co-Treasurer)

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

To ensure long-term protection and enhancement of native wildlife and habitats, support Refuge Partners management efforts, to promote advocacy, education, conservation, and recreational opportunities for the public. Support Native pollinators through education, sponsoring workshops and creating pollinator gardens in the Mashpee Refuge and with Refuge partners and other conservation partners.

What it reported doing in 2025

We participated in a new public and fundraiser event called "Walk For The Wild" (WFTW) in 2022, that encourages the public to get outside and enjoy the fall foliage within the Refuge trails. It is sponsored by the Public Lands Alliance and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife system. Participates walk a 5K designated trail through the Mashpee Refuge during the week of WFTW, generally the second week in October. Each year we increase our participation by the public. In 2023 year, we partnered with the local business, the Naukabout Brewery, to celebrate the WFTW where start and end the 5k walk and hold a raffle of nature-related items, offer reduced beer ticket for participants, and showcase the Friends and Refuge annual achievements. We have a live feed of our Osprey Camera and show highlights of the birds lives on the big screen TV for the public to enjoy nature at its closeness. In 2024 and 2025, we altered our walking route to be more in the refuge and included informational signs about native plants and animals and facts about the refuge throughout the walk. This media included QR coding, videos by refuge staff, facts about the Mashpee refuge to bring more awareness to the refuge and the partners activities in a fun and interesting way. We held the celebrations at a local brewery, The Naukabout, had a silent auction, raffle ticket items, sold refuge-themed merchandise and increased public participation by 4 times and brought more income to support our core programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% 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 program spending 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: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.3%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 17

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -51.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.3% of revenue deployed · 16.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • 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 25/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.