Weatherby Foundation International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461226031
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4803190866
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection of Endangered Species
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $783,820
- Expenses
- $495,178
- Assets
- $3,361,848
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENISE WELKER (PRESIDENT)
- J ALAIN SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RENEE SNIDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DENNIS ANDERSON (DIRECTOR)
- REX BAKER (DIRECTOR)
- DR BRAD BLACK (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 educate youth and the non-hunting public on the beneficial role of ethical sport hunting and its contribution to sustainable wildlife conservation, and to protect our constitutional right to do so.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide grants to other tax-exempt organizations who educate the public on the benefits of wildlife conservation and ethical sport hunting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.4%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 58%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.8%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.79; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.4% of revenue deployed · 58% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $287K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.