The White Memorial Conservation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 066065807
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Litchfield, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8605670857
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,296,549
- Expenses
- $742,158
- Assets
- $10,751,012
- Liabilities
- $99,050
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN BORZILLERI (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LUKAS HYDER (EXECUTIVE DI): $99,852 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1)to establish, organize, maintain, and operate a museum exclusively for scientific, educational and literary purposes. The museum shall be open, at reasonable times, to all members of the public. 2)to operate and maintain the aforementioned museum for the purpose of educating and instructing members of the public, both adults and children, in the conservation of natural resources, including but not limited to plants, trees, animals, fish, other living organism, soil, water and minerals. 3)to encourage the scientific study and understanding of the practices of conservation and of the natural sciences, and to that end to acquire, prepare, maintain, and use exhibits, books and equipment, conduct classes and research, and to publish documents and books relating to the aforementioned subjects.
What it reported doing in 2025
Research and education- research conservation information is published in the wildlife monitor, which is the center's online blog and in the center's quarterly newsletter, which are available on the website.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.8%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.49; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.6% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $567K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.