Howling for Wolves
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460856831
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Hopkins, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6124243613
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,199
- Expenses
- $79,621
- Assets
- $27,438
- Liabilities
- $369
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAUREEN HACKETT (President)
People named in this filing
- MAUREEN HACKETT (President)
- ROMAN OLYNYK (Treasurer)
- JOE WOLF (BOARD MEMBER)
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
EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT MINNESOTA'S WOLF POPULATION. HFW advocates for wolves and wildlife protections and advocates for environmental stewardship, including wildlife habitat.
What it reported doing in 2024
Howling For Wolves 2024 Activities Throughout 2024 HFW communicated through social media, website and emails news on wolves and joined the Endangered Species Coalition to advocate for wolves and other wildlife. HFW participated in media interviews and assisted with letter writing by supporters to oppose campaigns to hunt wolves. HFW educates the public on the benefits of a healthy wolf population on wildlife and habitat, including birds and water. HFW informs the public about the severe negative consequences of wolf hunts with potential for unpredictable effects such as increasing wolf conflicts. HFW educates on wolf/deer issues including the need for predators to control the spread of disease in wild deer. HFW conversed with MN USDA Wildlife Services to promote nonlethal methods with specific livestock producers. HFW continued the Wolf Forgiveness Bonus Program to pay farmers who experienced probable wolf conflicts (usually with calves) for their trouble and in exchange for them not having the wolf baited trapped and killed.HFW interacted with multiple agencies and NGO representatives to inform about the wolf hunts history and adverse effects.HFW'sdirector presented at the Great Lakes Wolf Conference in WI in Oct 2024. HFW presented the peer reviewed publication and data (Nature Scientific Reports) on the effects of wolf hunting on wolf mortality. The increase in wolfmortality is dramatic and persists for years after the hunts end. The data showed a more than doubling of overall wolf mortality (approx. 20% to 43%) and more than tripling of human caused wolf deaths increasing from 10% to 35%.
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
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 3.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.