Wild Connections Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
141899876
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
8179394293
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Land Resources Conservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,185
Expenses
$154,898
Assets
$67,305
Liabilities
$7,285

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • James Lockhart (Board President)
  • John Szktuowski (Board Member / Co-Executive Director Conservation)
  • India West (Co-Executive Director / Fundraising Director)

People named in this filing

  • James Lockhart (Board President)
  • Kristin Skoog (Board Member)
  • Alison Gallensky (Board Secretary/Bookkeeper)

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

Protect and preserve wildlands and biodiversity in the Upper Arkansas and South Platte Watersheds in Central Colorado

What it reported doing in 2024

Habitat Restoration: Work with USDA Forest Service to obliterate routes that are off-limits to motorized use to reduce habitat fragmentation and stop unauthorized incursion. Restoration work in the Puma Hills is increasing connectivity for elk, mule deer, and pronghorn. Monitoring of past restoration projects shows success in reseeding and in stopping motorized trespass. Projects are successfully limiting disturbance in important migrations corridors in the South Park region.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

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: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80

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: -73.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 70%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.