Wilderness Workshop
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741900412
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Carbondale, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9709633977
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,175,952
- Expenses
- $2,061,773
- Assets
- $2,369,753
- Liabilities
- $15,940
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENALI BARRON (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM ROUSH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER HART (LEGAL DIRECTOR): $162,851 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM ROUSH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $156,209 total reported compensation
- JULI SLIVKA (POLICY DIRECTOR): $126,647 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wilderness workshop's mission is to protect the wilderness, water, and wildlife of western Colorado's public land.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Colorado wildlands project (cwp) is a fiscally sponsored project of wilderness workshop that works to protect wild public lands managed by the bureau of land management. Cwp is dedicated to the conservaon, climate resilience and equitable management of western Colorado's public lands.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $248K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.