Heard Nature Photographers Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994277271
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Celina, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9727419188
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,682
- Expenses
- $6,857
- Assets
- $3,200
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Duckworth (President)
- Martha Taylor (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- David Duckworth (President)
- Martha Taylor (Vice-President)
- Earlene Hatfield aka Lee Hatfield (Secretary/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
The Club's primary purpose is to promote members' interest in nature photography by bringing together photographers interested in helping each other produce better images and to educate, encourage and expand their knowledge in learning the art of photography. Through monthly meetings, field trips and slideshows, plus presentations by photo professionals, members are encouraged to learn and grow their art plus enjoy the camaraderie of other members.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Club administers an annual nature photography contest open to the public for the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Place, McKinney, Texas 75069. The club is only an agent for the Museum and not part of the Museum and Club members volunteer their time to run the contest. Everyone who enters an image is required to pay an entry fee: $5.00 for youth and $10.00 for adults per image. Once the contest is closed, judged, awards are given and all expenses paid, the Club grants the NET proceeds to the Museum. The grant for 2025 was $3814.40.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. 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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.6%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 30; 30th 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: -148.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 79.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.6% of revenue deployed · 13.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $921 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.