Wild Grief
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475471208
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603583213
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $188,796
- Expenses
- $162,851
- Assets
- $185,276
- Liabilities
- $146,120
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Kirsch (Vice President)
- Michelle Schuyleman (President)
People named in this filing
- Monica Anney (Program Director)
- Breanna Trygg (Board Member)
- Karen Kirsch (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
Facilitate grief support groups in guided nature hikes at no charge to participants. Mission Statement: We facilitate peer groups for children and adults who are grieving a death by creating the space for sharing, connection, and healing in nature.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided community resources for dealing with grief as well as removing barriers to access and expanding equity in grief support. Activities included online support groups, information sessions and outreach, assistance to help underserved participants access our programs, and referrals to other grief resources. Also published original online content including self-guided grief hikes, exercises for centering in nature, posts about ways to cope with grief and curated other resources for grief support. All services provided free of charge.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
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: 13.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.