The Wildling

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832354085
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
6128772949
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,030
Expenses
$71,795
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Megan Kaplan (Director, Founder / Executive Director)
  • Courtney Mckeown (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Megan Kaplan (Director, Founder / Executive Director)
  • Mekea Duffy (Director, Co-Founder)
  • Courtney Mckeown (Vice President)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Wildling is on a mission to empower youth to share bravely from their lived stories in a safe and meaningful way. We help kids and teens craft their narratives and express out loud, encouraging them to speak their minds, trust each other, and feel the power of being heard. We are a nonprofit organization, a program, a movement, a way of tapping into wellness through storytelling.

What it reported doing in 2023

We bring over 105 years of education and nonprofit experience across our founders, educators, and Story Coaches. We have reached 24 schools in the area and completed 17 workshops reaching over 400 youth in our community. We champion a diverse and inclusive approach to building community across our youth programs. The Wildling has existing relationships with the YMCA, Minneapolis Parks, The Children's Theatre, and more. We have the skillset, reach, and mission to grow our evidence based program through partnerships in both the public and private sector.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -66.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 46.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -65.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.