Turkeys for Tomorrow

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852918057
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Auburn, AL, USA
Phone
2059085562
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$803,687
Expenses
$855,711
Assets
$165,519
Liabilities
$124,896

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON LUPARDUS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON LUPARDUS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $110,000 total reported compensation
  • REID DUVALL (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $30,000 total reported compensation
  • KEVIN MATTHEWS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $12,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote america's hunting traditions, conservation, and education through the collaboration of hunters and wildlife professionals to ensure there are turkeys for tomorrow.

What it reported doing in 2025

To fund research projects and other conservation programs to find solutions to problems facing wild turkeys.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 75% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $544K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.