Gorilla Rehabilitation Conservation Education (Grace) Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462308758
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Falmouth, MA, USA
- Phone
- 3038348630
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,446,755
- Expenses
- $2,056,447
- Assets
- $3,374,229
- Liabilities
- $16,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DR KATIE FAWCETT (EXE. AND SCI): $129,188 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grace gorillas is an international NGO working hard to provide excellent care and rewild rescued grauers gorillas while working alongside congolese communities to promote the conservation of wild gorillas and their habitat.
What it reported doing in 2024
Today, grace has 3 strategic program pillars that receive equal focus: rewild grauers gorillas: grace runs the only sanctuary in the world for critically endangered grauers gorillas that have been rescued from wildlife trafficking. Grace is trailblazing better ways to release gorillas back into the wild and has successfully rewilded four grauers gorillas to secure habitat in eastern democratic republic of the congo. Protect forest habitat: grace. Parnters with local communities to protect a vast 500,000-acre tract of remote primary tropical forest. This area forms a key habitat for critically endangered grauers gorillas. Engage local communities: grace practices community-led conservation, including implementing locally designed solutions, conservation education, sustainable livelihood and development projects, and biodiversity monitoring to foster peaceful coexistence between humans and gorillas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.