Raptor Chapter Inc Birds of Prey Northwest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351900474
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- St Maries, ID, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Bird Sanctuary, Preserve
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,657
- Expenses
- $74,850
- Assets
- $98,240
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- DON VELTKAMP (Chairman)
- JUSTIN ROSCOE DVM (Secretary)
- JANIE VELTKAMP (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
The organization was founded in 1993 for the dual purpose of providing medical care to injured wild birds of prey and education of the public about these federally protected birds.
What it reported doing in 2025
While these birds are protected, no agency support funds these activities the caring of injured birds and is often left to private charities. Annually we treat 100-150 injured wild raptors admitted from the public and state agencies in need of our medical and housing services. When we (Don and Jane Veltkamp, volunteer board members) are off- site, we hire help to care for the birds of prey in our care. These university students receive education as well as training and are offered a small stipend.Maintenance operations go on 365 days a year as we care for the up to 50 raptors, keep records, respond to emergency calls. Daily food preparation, feeding and food procurement are required for these special predatory birds of prey. Obtaining predatory the bird food supply is critical. Service accomplishments increase each year to meet public demands and birds admitted. Each year more educational birds are added to our teaching team and the request for our unique programs continues. It is yet to be determined how many children are inspired to conserve these magnificent birds of prey and how many of our rehabilitated patients returned to the wild to live along life. While intangible to predict the results, the work is so very meaningful to children and birds. Increasing requests for our unique educational programs occur each year. While impossible to predict how many children are inspired towards raptor conservation and how many raptors returned to the wild live long, it is a worthwhile mission. We also offer public tours of the facility and educate hundreds of people each year about raptor conservation. We also travel to local elementary schools and other public venues with trained live eagles, hawks, owls, falcons, and ospreys to further educate the public about raptor conservation.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th 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: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.