The Sportfishing Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208948522
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8058953000
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,676
- Expenses
- $83,398
- Assets
- $81,181
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM RAFTICAN (President)
People named in this filing
- TOM RAFTICAN (President)
- APRIL WAKEMAN (Secretary)
- COLBY HUFFMAN (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RECOGNIZING THAT WITH PRIVILEGE COMES RESPONSIBILITY, THE MISSION OF THE SPORTFISHING CONSERVANCY IS TO EMPOWER SPORTSMEN TO FULFILL AND CELEBRATE THEIR COMMITMENT TO THEIR SPORT AND TO REAL WORLD CONSERVATION. To bring about change in public perception about the importance of California's aquatic resources both Freshwater and Marine.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conservation outreach - provided public input on the value of enhanced marine habitat through fishing tournaments emphasizing marine conservation, which included no motor tournament, conservancy classic and perch derby; also worked on the reel world conservation tv program to spread conservation message to a far broader audience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.3%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.