The Alaska Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Commission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920137202
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Old Harbor, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9072862377
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,148
- Expenses
- $171,141
- Assets
- $32,291
- Liabilities
- $17,046
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LIANNA PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- Margaret Roberts (CHAIR)
- Patrick Norman (Vice-Chair)
- Helen Alderman (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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2015
Developed effective policies and programs for management of the sea otter and sea lion resources and related Alaska native harvest rights.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
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: -5.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.