Society for Conservation Biology North America Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811478046
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4062098687
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Biological & Life Sciences
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,827
- Expenses
- $143,179
- Assets
- $202,140
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anderson Tate (President)
- Rebecca Hufft (Past-President)
- Lauren Jonaitis (Vice President of Policy, Secretary)
- Stephanie Clements (Vice President of Education)
People named in this filing
- Bernardo Traversari (Managing Director)
- Anderson Tate (President)
- Rebecca Hufft (Past-President)
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
To provide a venue to connect diverse students and professionals to advance and apply conservation knowledge; to welcome, support, and empower all voices engaged in conservation to contribute to equitable solutions and catalyze wonder for the natural world; to advance conservation science and practice, through the biennial North American Congress for Conservation Biology; membership and development services; and education, policy, community engagement, and chapter services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education; Policy; Community, Access, Reach, and Engagement; and Student & Chapters Services - Members (~1200) benefit from SCBNA guidance and initiatives including trainings, guidance/collaboration on policy statements, and other opportunities to strengthen the conservation science professional community at the local, national and continental levels. Activities included winter, spring summer, and fall workshops alongside professional development webinars and a mini virtual conference (Education Forum) in late summer. All events and programs were well-attended (>1400 registrations) and were made available on the organization's website for future viewing. Moreover, in preparation for NACCB 2026, the organization continued to build on their support of student-led Chapters across the region (including assisting with the incorporation and reincorporation of five Chapters) and developed initiatives to maximize conference accessibility for attendees. Strategic partnerships and collaborations were also developed with other conservation organizations as part of the events and programs outlined above.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -124.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.