Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272961250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-PF 2015
- Location
- Hailey, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2087882290
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,818,603
- Expenses
- $2,034,983
- Assets
- $12,275,753
- Liabilities
- $1,032
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FLOYD ROBERTSON (PRESIDENT)
- 2JON MARVEL (VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- FLOYD ROBERTSON (PRESIDENT): $25,200 total reported compensation
- 2JON MARVEL (VICE-PRESIDENT): $25,200 total reported compensation
- TOM BLANCHARD (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $25,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to protect and restore sagebrush habitat in the american west to benefit native wildlife through voluntary conservation.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 the sagebrush habitat conservation fund (the fund) continued its efforts to retire federal grazing permits in Idaho, Nevada, California and Utah where specific statutes authorize the bureau of land management, the national park service, the forest service and the u.s. Fish and wildlife service to permanently retire public lands livestock grazing allotments. Offers were extended to ranchers to waive their grazing permits on the sawtooth national recreation area , in owyhee county, Idaho, in southern California and in southern Utah.in north western neveda the fund expanded its efforts to conserve and restore wildlife habitat on its vya ranch property and successfully completed negotiations to buy an adjacent 900-acre property and associated blm grazing permit. The fund also initiated negotiations to buy an additonal neighboring ranch and its associated blm grazing permit.the fund completed successful negotiations led by the California-based wildlands conservancy to retire from livestock grazing over 240,000 acres of mojave desert public lands west of needles, California administered by the national park service.also in 2025 the sagebrush habitat conservation fund continued its financial support of the western watersheds project for which the fund is a supporting non-profit organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 77% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.03; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $25K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.