Wildcat Glades Nature Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824159839
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Joplin, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4177087713
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,261
- Expenses
- $163,010
- Assets
- $249,302
- Liabilities
- $13,224
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN STANDRIDGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CAMEO HARRINGTON (PRESIDENT)
- JASON WILLAND (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBIN STANDRIDGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEVE GAARDER (DIRECTOR)
- VICKI CASSADY (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Preserve and restore chert glades
What it reported doing in 2024
Conservation education was presented to over 7,500 individuals. Programs for preschool, developmentally disadvantaged individuals, nature exploreres, foraging, and camp wildcat.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.