Turtle Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205095680
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Bellingham, WA, USA
Phone
3602203592
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,547
Expenses
$26,920
Assets
$1,951
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Reisa Latorra (President)

People named in this filing

  • Reisa Latorra (President)
  • Kevin Latorra (Board Member)
  • Carrington Calloway (Board Member)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Turtle Foundation implements sea turtle conservation and protection programs and seeks to raise funds for these programs. Turtle Foundation also supports sea turtle conservation programs implemented by other conservation organizations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Turtle Foundation USA supports turtle conservation projects implemented by Turtle Foundation Germany and Turtle Foundation Switzerland, which has been running a successful Green Turtle nesting beach protection program in the Berau Islands in Indonesia since 2000. Nests are protected from being poached for eggs, allowing millions of hatchlings to enter the sea. TF Germany and Turtle Foundation Switzerland also run a Loggerhead Turtle protection project in Cape Verde, West Africa, protecting turtles from being slaughtered, running youth education programs regarding ecology, and helping the community find alternative sources of income. Turtle Foundation is now also working to protect Leatherback turtle nests on Sipora (West Sumatra) and Selaut Besar (Aceh), Indonesia, including satellite tagging of female leatherback turtles to determine migration patterns to feeding areas.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.