Natura International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311667319
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023331044
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $896,689
- Expenses
- $698,817
- Assets
- $351,987
- Liabilities
- $32,556
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Byron Swift (President)
- Catherine Plume (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Byron Swift (President): $47,442 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way we hope to conserve the planets environmental health and our natural and cultural heritage for the benefit of our and future generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
We focus great effort on creating new reserves and protected areas to conserve rainforest and other critical ecosystems in Latin America working with local organizations governments and communities. Our efforts focus on saving Amazon rainforest and Andean cloud forests two of the richest biomes on Earth that hold a vast amount of our planets biodiversity yet are being rapidly destroyed. We also assist in building the capacity of local conservation organizations to achieve on-the-ground results in natural area and biodiversity conservation. This years grants were allocated to local conservation organizations and programs in Argentina Bolivia Colombia Ecuador and Peru.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $61.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 22.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $660K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $47K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.