The Preserve
Legal name: Friends of the Preserve Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821937930
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fredericksburg, Texas, US
- Phone
- +1 (830) 992-0373
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,305
- Expenses
- $78,348
- Assets
- $170,182
- Liabilities
- $3,801
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BECKY BAILEY-FINDLEY (President)
People named in this filing
- BECKY BAILEY-FINDLEY (President)
- GARY FINDLEY (Secretary)
- KENDA RICE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve all animals by building awareness through contact and education in partnership with our animal ambassadors.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educational programs are offered to further the cause of animal protection and conservation, as well as provide support to the preserve
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.17; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.8% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.