African Rainforest Conservancy
Legal name: The Tanzania Wildlife Fund Inc D/b/a African Rainforest Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133582323
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 212-431-5508
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,245
- Expenses
- $169,193
- Assets
- $55,360
- Liabilities
- $366
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARTER COLEMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CARTER COLEMAN (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID YAMNER (TREASURER)
- BETH O'DONNELL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise funds for grassroots conservation projects and generate awareness of the important environmental, economic, cultural, and social roles of African forests. The ARC supports alternative enterprises to illegal logging and charcoal production, like fishponds, beekeeping, and butterfly farming to enable people to support themselves and their families through sustainable income activities that leverage renewable natural resources. Donate Now ARC works to conserve and restore African Rainforests - among the oldest and most biodiverse in the world. Support the ARC The ARC restores African rainforests through grassroots conservation and community development by providing new economic and educational opportunities to local men, women, and children. DONATE NOW.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conserving ancient mountain forests and wildlife, primarily in tanzania, through local education, tree planting, and eco-friendly income generating activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $161K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.