The United States Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310941103
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6148884868
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,086,890
- Expenses
- $4,139,192
- Assets
- $7,758,526
- Liabilities
- $1,239,461
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EVAN HEUSINKVELD (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- EVAN HEUSINKVELD (PRESIDENT &): $283,340 total reported compensation
- TODD A ADKINS (VP GOVERNMEN): $201,183 total reported compensation
- WM BRIAN DOWLER (VP- MEMBERSH): $190,495 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To protect and advance america's heritage of hunting, fishing and trapping by uniting sportsmen and women to protect against legal attacks by the animal rights movement. Gain support for wildlife conservation and outdoor sports by organizing and educating america's youth, their families and the elected officials that represent them.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conservation research - identify and research groups and individuals who advocate postions that will adversely affect wildlife conservation and sportsmen's ability to hunt, fish and trap. Research and develop programs that oppose the anti-hunting movement and identify opportunities to advance programs that enhance hunting, fishing and trapping opportunities and support scientific wildlife conservation. Prepare and distribute information and educational materials relating to wildlife conservation and the sportsmen's effective funding model that has produced the most abundant and thriving wildlife populations in more than 100 years. We achieve this by utilizing electronic and social media, the creation of brochures, audio visual presentations and educational materials used in speeches, displays and direct mail to sportsmen and conservation clubs nationwide. In house and hired vendors provide the research, information and creativity necessary to successfully craft and distribute our message to the american people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 18.9%; rating input score 19; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $283K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $277K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.