North American Bluebird Society Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521118450
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Bloomington, IN, USA
Phone
5405506712
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Bird Sanctuary, Preserve

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,088
Expenses
$60,998
Assets
$509,768
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mike DeBruhl (First Vice President, Affiliate Relations)
  • Dana Grayson (Second Vice President and Membership Secretary)
  • Kathy Kremnitzer (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Lori Jo Jamieson (Board Member): $7,200 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Helping bluebirds and other cavity nesting birds.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided educational materials to the public and our affiliated organizations that explain the current best practices on a range of topics such as nest box design, predator control, monitoring nest boxes, meal worms, and more. Also supported development of "Youth Bluebird Book" to be released in 2022. Represent NABS at conferences and provide support to affiliates in person.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 78.9%; rating input score 79; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.36; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.