Nature's Best Photography Fund Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270222344
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2009
Location
Purcellville, VA, USA
Phone
7034679783
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Visual Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$171,831
Expenses
$197,389
Assets
$9,641

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEPHEN FRELIGH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CHARLES VEATCH (CHAIRMAN)
  • MARK BAUM (TREASURER)
  • STEPHEN FRELIGH (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The natures best photography fund is an official IRS approved 501(c)(3), nonprofit public charity established in mclean, Virginia, USA. The nbp fund operates through public donations, foundation grants, licensing partnerships, and program sponsorships to deliver publications, photography award competitions, and large-format multimedia exhibitions at museums, galleries, and children's hospitals around the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization discovers, celebrates, and displays the creative and documentary talents of nature photographers and visual storytellers of all ages and backgrounds. This is accomplished through photographic exhibits, the development and distribution of nature photography journal, and contests.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 10
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 43%; rating input score 43

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 43% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.