Three Ring Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990344980
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Kailuakona, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8083318778
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection of Endangered Species
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-41,159
- Expenses
- $169,085
- Assets
- $1,561,794
- Liabilities
- $10,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN GOODY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NORMAN GOODY (VICE PRESIDENT / TREASURER)
- LINDA HUNNICUTT-BICKNELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANN GOODY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NORMAN GOODY (VICE PRESIDENT / TREASURER)
- GREG TIMMEL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To positively impact the enviroment while educating Hawaii's children about their place in the natural world. To assist in the development of enviromentally responsible generation of youth by teaching about the fragile ecosystem impacted by humans on a daily basis while giving visitors a rare chance to see exotic and non-releaseable native animals living their natural lives as residents of our facility.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization held 81 educational programs with a total of 791 attendees. 21 volunteers led 7 rescues of exotic animals. The organization hosted 7 veterinary student interns for 4-week residential programs. The organization continues to run a program working with county animal control flying pets to the continental u.s. For rescue which would otherwise be euthanized. The organization was reaccredited by the global federation of animal sanctuaries. The organization is usda licensed, usf&w service permitted and licensed with the Hawaii department of agriculture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -510.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.24; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.