Toucan Rescue Ranch Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800516453
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Reno, NV, USA
Phone
7755442922
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$479,712
Expenses
$446,108
Assets
$109,577
Liabilities
$6,032

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LESLIE HOWLE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JOAN EMBERY (DIRECTOR)
  • JEREMY GILL (DIRECTOR)
  • RICHARD HENDERSON (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

The toucan rescue ranch, inc. Is a wildlife rescue facility located in san isidro, heredia in costa rica. The trr focuses on the care, rehabilitation and study of costa rican toucans and other wildlife. The trr receives sick, injured and confiscated birds and other animals from costa rican government agencies and individuals. Trr provides a loving home with the goal of providing appropriate medical treatment, rehabilitation and then, when possible, returning them to their wild and natural environment. The toucan rescue ranch is a licensed costa rican wildlife rescue facility. The trr utilizes a rainforest release site approximately 40 miles from the rescue facility for all birds and animals that are rehabilitated. The real property that the trr facilities are located are owned by the founder of the organization, leslie howle, who donates the use of the properties to the organization. The goals of trr include: to establish a captive breeding program for all 6 species of costa rican touc

What it reported doing in 2025

The trr focuses on the rescue, care, rehabilitation and study of costa rican toucans and other animals along with the education of the public on the trr's operations and purpose. The trr receives donations and revenues from gift shop sales, bed and breakfast operations and facility tours to fund its purpose. Trr helps to fund the costa rica foundation, a sister organization founded in costa rica, which provides all of these same services, however, allows status as a costa rican entity providing the organization more tools to accomplish its mission.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: $55.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $435K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.