Native Fish Keepers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821415281
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Polson, MT, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$94,060
Expenses
$113,379
Assets
$177,231
Liabilities
$113,379

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cindy Benson (CEO)
  • Bill Foust (Director-Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Cindy Benson (CEO)
  • Bill Foust (Director-Board President)
  • Traci McDonald (Director-Board Secretay)

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

Suppression of non-native fish-processed and sold to help sustain the program funding needs. Donations made to food banks of unsold fish.

What it reported doing in 2024

Removal of a prescribed quantity of non-native fish with public anglers and agency gillnets to restore the native trout populations. Sales of the fish offset costs of the program. All of society benefits from the conservation effort.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.