Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841597206
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Englewood, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3038085286
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,978
- Expenses
- $97,634
- Assets
- $132,551
- Liabilities
- $5,815
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANK KEESLING (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FRANK KEESLING (PRESIDENT)
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
Serving the mountain gorilla in rwanda, uganda and the democratic republic of congo and protecting its habitat, including activites directed at eliminating any adverse impact on such habitat from adjacent areas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide veterinary care for mountain gorillas in rwanda, uganda and the democratic republic of congo. Provided sanitary services and materials to help protect the gorilla habitat.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
MIXED - 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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.3%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 9
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: -32%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.3% of revenue deployed · 9.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.