Protect Our Wildlife Vermont
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473839485
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Stowe, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8022531592
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,477
- Expenses
- $129,996
- Assets
- $267,437
- 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
- Brenna Galdenzi (President)
People named in this filing
- Brenna Galdenzi (President)
- Patricia Monteferrante (Treasurer)
- Renate Callahan (Secretary)
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 Education and Advocacy. Working to make Vermont a more humane place for wildlife. Educating the public about the impact that personal decisions have on wildlife and the dangers and cruelty of trapping.
What it reported doing in 2025
Wetland Protection and Beavers: Beavers and their dams are crucial to the creation of wetlands and ecosystems which help to stop climate change.During times of draught beaver ponds and rivers help to maintain wildlife and fish. Beaver dams can also cause flooding and damage to roads and infrastructure, and many Vermont towns will trap and kill beavers to stop the damage.POW has worked with numerous Vermont towns to stop the needless killing of this apex species by helping to pay for the installation of water control devices which stop the flooding and destruction of roads, bridges, and other infrastructures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 41
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: -14.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.06; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 41.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.