Ohio Nature Education

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311614564
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Johnstown, OH, USA
Phone
7409678320
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,274
Expenses
$100,905
Assets
$74,982
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TARA HUTSON (VICE PRESIDENT/BOARD TRUSTEE)
  • DANI JONES (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MANON VANSCHOYCK (BOARD TRUSTEE)
  • CHRISTINE BAKER (TREASURER/SECRETARY)
  • TARA HUTSON (VICE PRESIDENT/BOARD TRUSTEE)

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

Wildlife rescue, environmental education and wildlife rehabilitation

What it reported doing in 2025

We provide a home for more than 30 wild animals which are unable to return to the wild. We incorporate wild animals into environmental education programs for people from preschool age to senior citizens. We conduct more than 300 programs annually for more than 25,000 people in up to 13 Ohio counties. We rehabilitate a small number of injured, orphaned, and sick animals. We generally admit 50 animals per year. We provide advice to callers to humanely deter wildlife from their homes and yards. We advise our community to attract wildlife. We advise our community when not to intervene on behalf of wildlife. We respond to 100 wildlife crisis calls annually.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.3%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 62.6%; rating input score 63

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.3% of revenue deployed · 62.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.