North Sky Raptor Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831741274
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Interlochen, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2319443908
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,137
- Expenses
- $76,029
- Assets
- $15,886
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey Bohnet (President)
- Shelly Sissen-Burden (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jeffrey Bohnet (President)
- Shelly Sissen-Burden (Vice President)
- Rebecca Millican (Treasurer)
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
Rehabilitate raptors and promote their conservation through dynamic community education and impactful research.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through our rehabilitation efforts, we had the privilege of treating 111 patients from 36 counties throughout Michigan. Their care required 215 diagnostic x-rays and 10 life saving surgeries, resulting in a 64% overall survival rate. Our community education impact also soared this year with an estimated reach of 10,000 participants from 85 educational programs and an additional 12 public engagements. And, in 2025, North Sky Raptor Sanctuary participated in 4 studies aligned with our research mission. First, we partnered with both Oregon State University and the University of Alabama for ongoing separate studies aimed at improving the understanding behind why animals end up in rehabilitation and the impact that wildlife rehabilitators have on advancing treatment options, medicine, and conservation outcomes. We also contributed to a project conducted by the Great Lakes Environmental Center (G.L.E.C.) to determine the source of fecal contamination in surface water using DNA. And nally, we are collaborating with the Michigan Association of Wildlife Rehabilitators and the Michigan State University Wildlife Disease Lab to better understand the prevalence of lead in Michigan's wildlife.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.6%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -64.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.