The Watershed Education Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810525373
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4065419287
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,509
- Expenses
- $152,632
- Assets
- $204,686
- Liabilities
- $5,332
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matt Simms (Vice President)
- Emily Wilmott (President)
- DEBBIE B FASSNACHT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- Matt Simms (Vice President)
- Joe Kirk (Secretary)
- Joan Hess-Homeier (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
Natural resource & water education services wen's mission: to foster knowledge, appreciation and understanding of waterhsed health through citizen science, youth and school engagement and outreach to our community in order to grow future stewards.
What it reported doing in 2024
Citizen science stream team: wen trains and leads a collaborative network of dedicated community volunteers, interns and community members. The stream team all work together to understand and raise awareness about water health and share their findings with agencies, partners, and the community. Our citizen science stream team includes people from all walks of life - including retired scientists, college professors, neighbors living near the creeks, americorps members, students from the university of Montana, and high school students-who want to learn mroe about water monitoring and by collecting base-line data, help to ensure the health of our local watersheds. Wen's stream team monitors ten sites on rattlesnake creek, four sites on grant creek, and groundwater elevations in lower rattlesnake creek in greenough park. Wen's team is observing and documenting baseline data for use by a myriad of community organizations and the university of Montana. Wen also leads a citizen science youth summer program. Backcountry stream corps (bcsc) is our two-week summer program for highschool-aged youth. We train our bcsc members in data collection and observation techniques and then lead them into the rattlesnake recreation and wilderness areas in order to collect specialized data on the upstream, and less accessible, reaches of the rattlesnake creek watershed. The bcsc participants are hiking and biking to their field locations and gathering data in reaches beyond the citizen science stream team. Over the last 3 years, wen has expanded to monitoring on grant creek in addition to rattlesnake creek sites near missoula, mt.
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 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
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: -2.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 53.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.