Friends of the Tonto National Forest Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472053736
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6024324944
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,747
- Expenses
- $89,727
- Assets
- $188,551
- Liabilities
- $622
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT WOOD (PRESIDENT)
- DON PIKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PATTI FENNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT WOOD (PRESIDENT)
- DON PIKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- URB WEIDNER (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist tonto national forest with its natural and cultural resource management.
What it reported doing in 2025
Saguaro monitoring:34 volunteers monitored health and survival of over 11,000 saguaro cacti.chronolog project: allows hikers to take digital photos from 2 dedicated monitoring stations.tonto basin stinknet removal project: volunteers remove invasive stinknet plants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
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: 25.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.