Wild Life League of Ohio County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311060533
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Triadelphia, WV, USA
Phone
3049054555
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$190,366
Expenses
$108,903
Assets
$1,162,113
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JIM TULLY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RON BLACK (TREASURER)
  • WAYNE HABERFIELD (VICE-PRESIDE)
  • HARMONY SHEPARD (SECRETARY)

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 promote firearms and archery safety. Facilities are available free of charge to area schools for archery tournaments and their yearly archery banquet. To help support local schools and charities with their archery programs. To support the local youth 4h club with a meeting location and yearly banquet, and remain active with the 4h shooting sports. Facilities are also available free of charge to area law enforcement departments including the wheeling police department, atf, u.s. Marshalls, and federal courthouse officers, etc. For training, practice, and their mandatory certifications. The organization conducts firearm and bow hunting safety classes and provides safety literature. It holds club bow shoots, for which children under the age of sixteen have free admission. The organization also donates and plants trees and maintains food plots. It also conserves and urges wise use of natural resources, including soil, unpolluted waters, forests, vegetation, fish, wildlife, and scenic an

What it reported doing in 2025

Facilities are available free of charge to area high schools for archery tournaments, law enforcement officers for target practice training and mandatory certifications, conducting bowhunters and firearms safety classes, hold nra youth fest for safety awareness, provide safety literature to the public, donate and plant trees and maintain feed plots for wildlife, support local youth organizations with a meeting and fund raising location, support the 4-h clubs with a meeting location and safety programs and remain active with the 4-h shooting sports.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 82% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.7%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • 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: 42.8%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.67; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.7% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 400 of 400 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $104K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.