Hoffler Creek Wildlife Foundation Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541778484
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Portsmouth, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7576868684
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,516
- Expenses
- $136,974
- Assets
- $176,373
- Liabilities
- $1,213
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ray Strutton (President)
- Beth Hester (Vice President)
- Ashley Morgan (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ray Strutton (President)
- Beth Hester (Vice President)
- Amy Poland (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
Environmental education & habitat conservation
What it reported doing in 2024
Environmental Education and Outreach: Consistent with its educational mission, HCWF provided structured and informal learning opportunities for a diverse audience, including K-12 schools, college groups, adult nature-enthusiasts, and community volunteers. Key accomplishments: A. Hosted monthly guided hikes, kayak paddles, bird watching tours, and mindfulness in nature sessions, reaching hundreds of participants. B. Delivered curriculum-linked field trips and outreach programs focusing on estuarine ecology, watershed science, butterfly life cycles, and Chesapeake Bay restoration themes, educating students from local schools. C. Expanded public outreach via digital newsletters, citizen science opportunities (bird counts, water-quality monitoring) and special events to raise awareness of human-nature connections in the Hampton Roads region. HCWF's success depends on collaboration with volunteers, local schools, higher-education institutions, municipal agencies and citizen groups. Over the year: A. The Foundation mobilized over 2,000 community members, volunteers and interns in work-days, citizen-science events and outreach programs. B. Formed or strengthened partnerships with nearby universities, the local school system, regional restoration non-profits, and government resource agencies-enhancing access to resources, technical expertise and broader conservation networks. C. Developed fundraising and awareness campaigns to grow individual membership, corporate sponsorships, and foundation grants, thereby supporting the financial sustainability of the preserve's mission and programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
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: -0.3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.