Mamoni Valley Preserve
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270514499
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Incline Village, NV, USA
- Phone
- 5108131426
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $514,955
- Expenses
- $420,324
- Assets
- $8,969,003
- Liabilities
- $1,862
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AILENE DE ICAZA ORDAS (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AILENE DE ICAZA ORDAS (CEO): $71,709 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Conserving the biodiversity of panama's mamoni valley, a critical biological corridor connecting north and south america, and one of the world's top 36 biodiversity hotspots. Mvp works in partnership with local communities to fight illegal logging, hunting, mining, etc., and has focused on conserving land, promoting reforestation, and protecting the valley's biodiversity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conservation program: mamoni valley preserve implements a landscape-scale conservation program focused on protecting rainforest habitat, supporting local communities, and advancing science-based stewardship within the mamoni valley. Through the mamoni guardians program, locally employed community members conduct regular patrols across protected lands, helping reduce illegal activities and safeguard habitat for more than 1,600 documented species. The conservation program also includes sustainable livelihood initiatives designed to reduce pressure on forests. In 2025, the organization implemented the "miel en madrono" community apiculture program, providing equipment, training, and technical support to local participants. The organization also supports community access to land for sustainable cultivation through its tierra viva program, promoting environmentally responsible agricultural practices and improving food security. In addition, mamoni valley preserve supports biodiversity monitoring and scientific collaboration to inform conservation management and protect a critical biological corridor connecting north and south america. These combined efforts strengthen long-term protection of rainforest ecosystems while supporting local stewardship and conservation-based livelihoods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $56.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 18.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.34; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $378K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- 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 21/100.