Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455197646
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Navarre, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8506843347
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Zoo, Zoological Society
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $858,170
- Expenses
- $720,236
- Assets
- $1,272,511
- Liabilities
- $16,940
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Becky Harger (President)
- Carmen Reynolds (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Thomas L Anderson (CFO): $86,539 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To "give sea turtles more tomorrows" through conservation, education and research. We are a working conservation center in existence since 2013. Our vision is to impress upon the community the importance of sea turtle conservation and the preservation of the world's marine resources for the enjoyment of future generations. We accomplish this through education and hands-on learning experiences, inspiring individuals by showing them that one person can make a difference not only locally but also globally. The NBSTCC promotes its mission and vision guided by its core values of community and stewardship. The recent addition of two pavilions will help us in expanding our educational offerings because while guests are touring our facility, we are now able to simultaneously conduct classes in the east pavilion, complete with weatherproof bench tables. Due to lack of space, our next venture will be to build "up in the cloud" with five virtual classes in five grade levels as part of a new core
What it reported doing in 2025
The NBSTCC welcomes over 65,000 guests to learn about the effect of human activity on sea turtles . Guests leave with the knowledge to make a positive impact on these imperiled species . This also includes regular beach cleanups which attracts over 1000 volunteers annually removing over 1800 pounds of debris from Navarre Beach . Lastly our pier stranding team saves over 50 turtles each year for rehabilitation educating the public about sea turtle conservation in the process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $200.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $655K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.