Wilderness Adventures for Kids Everywhere Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851002209
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wasilla, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9079313115
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,386
- Expenses
- $20,386
- Assets
- $21,613
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anthony Sean Jordan (President/Treasurer)
- Latosha Deanne Woodard (Vice President/Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Anthony Sean Jordan (President/Treasurer)
- Latosha Deanne Woodard (Vice President/Secretary)
- Isaac Williams (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wilderness Adventures for Kids Everywhere, Inc. (W.A.K.E., Inc.) is a nonprofit organization providing mentoring and outdoor experience programs for youth in grades K-12, with an emphasis on youth in grades 5-8. The organization will work in partnership with school districts and other youth serving agencies. W.A.K.E., Inc.'s goal is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills, resiliency, and self-awareness while developing outdoor sportsman skills. This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
What it reported doing in 2025
Summer Camp: In 2025, W.A.K.E., Inc. started its sixth year. We hosted a 2-day fishing camp with 4 campers and 1 volunteers and 2 board members. Campers learned how to dipnet fish for salmon. They also proxy fished for several elderly and disabled in our community. Overall, they caught over 100 fish and distributed filets to the community. Mentor Program: W.A.K.E., Inc. worked with 17 mentees in our mentorship program throughout the year engaging in one-on-one interactions with the youth and their families as well as small group excursions to the museum, athletic events, and smaller fishing and camping trips. We continued to host virtual workshops to include youth from Alaska, Louisiana, Georgia, Arizona and Florida. Scholarships: W.A.K.E., Inc. did not award any scholarships in 2025.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.8%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.8% of revenue deployed · 15.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.