Sonflower Ranch Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813663282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Brighton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7208719453
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Sanctuary, Refuge
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,088
- Expenses
- $120,733
- Assets
- $440,621
- Liabilities
- $10,456
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keith Gunn Jr (President)
- Eric Pollart (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Keith Gunn Jr (President)
- Eric Pollart (Vice President)
- Alicia Williams (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 is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitation and releasing injured and orphaned wildlife back into their natural environments and educating the public on living harmoniously with wildlife to include proper eviction protocols.
What it reported doing in 2025
Intake of 379 wildlife with only 3 part time animal care employees and one perminent part time volunteer. One of the highest live release rate for non-terminally ill animals in our region with an 86.7% live release rate after 24hrs. We have never euthanized for space or time of care
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.65; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.