Tracker Certification

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862425182
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Jeffersonville, VT, USA
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,830
Expenses
$61,390
Assets
$58,378

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Casey McFarland (Executive Director)
  • David Moskowitz (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Casey McFarland (Executive Director)
  • Sophie Mazowita (Operations Manager)
  • David Moskowitz (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our nonprofits core service is educational offering a range of resources support and professional certification to individuals seeking to enhance their wildlife tracking skills. We are dedicated to advancing the field of wildlife tracking by equipping enthusiasts with the necessary knowledge and tools to contribute meaningfully to conservation efforts. Through our programs participants gain hands-on experience theoretical expertise and networking opportunities essential for effective wildlife monitoring and research.

What it reported doing in 2024

Certification Support & Outreach: We facilitated delivery of 106 certification programs for 870 participants. We manage the certification calendar and certified tracker database supply tracker patches and worked with new program hosts to support certification training programs in new locales.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.

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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76

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: -28.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 58.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 53.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -50.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.