Sacred Wolf Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934348638
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Snowmass, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9707101351
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection of Endangered Species
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,347
- Expenses
- $23,002
- Assets
- $44,836
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To love honor and celebrate the wolf as sacred and our closest kin paying respect to Native and like-minded Western populations who cherish the wolf as a totem To protect and nurture wild wolves canis lupus and domesticated wolves canis lupus familiaris through education in service to local peoples of Colorado and land preservation preserving public and private lands through conservation leases or land purchases for wildlife habitats including habitats for deer elk rabbits foxes and wolves To acquire ranch lands and associated BLM leases and replace domestic animals cattle and sheep with more robust ruminants such as bison or elk. To advocate for a State Wildlife Corridor where wolves can flourish free from domestic livestock. To donate to the proper care of canids in the State of Colorado in service to sick or disabled dog owners neglected or malnourished dogs and wildlife sanctuaries
What it reported doing in 2025
Habitat Preservation: Identified lands in Colorado as suitable habitats for wild wolves and associated native species and solicited funds for preservation of these habitats through purchase or lease. Developed relationship with local and regional land trust organizations as well as CPW officials Bison ranchers and University of Colorado scientists on how to best manage such wildlife habitats. Spoke with Senator Russ Andrews who solicited the idea of a State Wildlife Corridor for wolf habitat protection to the Governor Polis of Colorado. Polled over 500 Colorado residents regarding the benefits of such a wildlife corridor and the need to separate wolf and domestic livestock habitats. Polled over 1000 participants regarding the use of wild lands USFS and BLM for wild species particularly wolves and bison Trail Cam Project: Used trail cameras on ranch lands to identify areas of where wolves traveled and burrowed in Snowmass Colorado
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 76.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 40 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX ConferencesMeetings column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.