Idaho Wildlife Federation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237039340
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2089180729
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $459,677
- Expenses
- $404,389
- Assets
- $999,766
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom Page (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Nicholas Fasciano (Executive Dir.): $100,685 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Wildlife conservation policy advocacy, ongoing proactive and defensive campaigns ensuring Idaho maintains and enhances policies that benefit fish and wildlife, habitat, and hunting and fishing heritage. This work includes maintaining a presence at the statehouse to communicate grassroots values and disseminating information to constituents; educating local, state, and federal elected and appointed officials about conservation and sporting issues; conserving big game migration corridors; ensuring funding of conservation initiatives for specific species campaigns or for the benefit of habitat health on public and private grounds; providing official comments for federal processes (NEPA) and state actions; promoting a strong conservation ethic among Idaho sportsmen and women, and much more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $404K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.