Kisma Preserve
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010412171
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Mount Desert, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2076673244
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Zoo, Zoological Society
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,846
- Expenses
- $161,194
- Assets
- $222,281
- Liabilities
- $354,491
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Heather Grierson (President)
People named in this filing
- Heather Grierson (President)
- Charles Thatcher (Secretary)
- Christine ONeill (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a permanent home for wild, domestic and exotic animals unable to return to the wild and to educate the public about them.
What it reported doing in 2023
To provide a stable home for wild, domestic and exotic animals unable to return to the wild and to educate the public about them
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.59; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.