Krushan Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874716839
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Wimberley, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5128277354
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,516
- Expenses
- $38,536
- Assets
- $20,023
- 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
- Kruger du Plessis (Co-Founder & President)
- Shannon du Plessis (Co-Founder & Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kruger du Plessis (Co-Founder & President)
- Shannon du Plessis (Co-Founder & Vice President)
- Shelby Atkinson (Secretary)
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
KruShan Foundation is the only US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated solely to protecting critically endangered African penguins from extinction. Without action, African penguins may go extinct in the wild by 2035. This isn't a distant statistic. African penguins are marine sentinels, like canaries in a coal mine, but for the ocean. Oceans cover 71% of the planet, produce much of the oxygen we breathe, and absorb the carbon dioxide and heat driving climate change. We're the only U.S.-based nonprofit fighting solely for their survival. Since we stay in constant contact with our network of partners, who are some of the most dedicated, caring, and straight-talking people we've ever met, we can answer two questions in real time: What is the most urgent problem or need right now? Who can provide the solution most effectively right now?
What it reported doing in 2025
African Penguin Protection Program: 2025 program highlights--We began working with a new partner, SAPREC, and immediately provided funding for penguin medicine, a replacement for a 20-year-old laptop that was failing, and penguin pool relining. We continued our work with the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary. We funded the Senior Seabird Ranger, who protects over 2,000 African penguins at the Dyer Island colony for the third year. To keep the ranger safer and to enable better monitoring of the penguins on Dyer Island, we funded two solar-powered surveillance cameras that will mount to the island's observation tower. We held a special fundraiser to help care for 32 African penguin chicks during winter storms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 32; 32nd 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: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -34.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.