Northeast Bat Working Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471379273
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Schoharie, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7165604585
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,698
- Expenses
- $43,169
- Assets
- $91,108
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Townsend (President)
- Casey Pendergast (President-elect)
- Melanie Berger (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jonathan Townsend (President)
- Casey Pendergast (President-elect)
- Melanie Berger (Vice 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 Northeast Bat Working Group (NEBWG) is comprised of individuals representing a number of organizations, companies, and government entities. Members include many of the leading bat researchers in the Northeast US, along with several other individuals with interest in the research, recovery, and education about bats. A winter meeting is held each year at various locations where participants present results from previous studies, provide updates on long term projects, and plan future multi-state collaborative endeavors. State representatives provide summaries of their state's bat related activities, while federal representatives provide updates on national scale policy and protection efforts. The current mission of NEBWG is to facilitate networking with bat biologists and overhead is covered by volunteers. Annual meetings are supported by meeting registration fees and sponsors depending on the venue. There are no annual dues.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 NEBWG organized our annual meeting, which took place in Saratoga Springs, January 14-16, 2026. This meeting had 230 attendees. In addition to this meeting, NEBWG sponsored 4 student travel awards to help cover the cost of attending and encourage student attendees at the conference. These awards consisted of three $500 stipends to the top three students in NEBWG's application process and a complimentary room to NEBWG's student representative on the Board of Directors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.5%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 2.5% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.