Saguaro Juniper Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860613688
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone
5208331463
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Land Resources Conservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,178
Expenses
$74,863
Assets
$362,539
Liabilities
$2,420

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAMES B CALLEGARY (PRESIDENT)
  • KATIE TALBOTT (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JAMES B CALLEGARY (PRESIDENT)
  • KATIE TALBOTT (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ANN RUSSELL (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

The saguaro juniper corporation was formed with a strong commitment to 1) ecological conservation, land stewardship, and raising cattle in a way that develops a respectful, spiritual bond between people, the cattle, and the land, and 2) educating people about our lands and our approach.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conservation and education: maintaining a gentle herd of cows that know the saguaro juniper lands well and caring for the lands where they graze. The cows are available to teach members, apprentices and others to be present on the land and learn about the land and its care. Our gentle cows are essential for teaching apprentices and volunteers how to handle them humanely, including branding, castrating, and vaccinating calves. The cows are also integral to our conservation practices and approach. Included in this program is the care of three horses, which is an important part of our education experience for members, apprentices and others. We maintain an important wildlife corridor in hot springs canyon.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.84; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 46.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -44.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.