Wildflower Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Wildflower provides the gift of summer camp and enrichment opportunities to children who have lost a parent. Our unique program provides individually tailored support for grieving families. Wildflower provides emotional and logistical support to the surviving parent, and the opportunity for at-risk children to receive the incredible experiences that summer camp brings.our family liaison team is a keystone of our program. Each family is paired with a family liaison, a trained human services professional, who works with the parent and their children by lending a listening ear, helping find best-fit camps for their children, and providing referrals to grief programs and other resources when needed.wildflower's program of placing grieving children in supportive camps, surrounded by mentors and counselors and opportunities to master new skills, facilitates healing and increases their resilience. In addition, wildflower provides the advocacy, camp tuition negotiation, and financial support to make camp and enrichment opportunities a possibility to help families rebuild their lives after loss.we strive to place our children in best-fit camps, keeping their interests and the needs of the entire family in mind. We place our campers in traditional day or overnight, specialty (e.g., sports/arts/travel), and bereavement camps in new england, across the u.s., and internationally.once a child becomes a wildflower camper, we support them for as long as our assistance is needed, up to age 18. The family liaison partners with the family throughout their healing journey. This long-term commitment is a key component of our mission. Families benefit from our continued support long after the immediate support from family and friends starts to fade.even as our wildflower teens move beyond their camping years, we continue to support them through our college planning program, developed to assist families and teens as they navigate the admissions process. We partner with college counseling organizations to provide workshops and individual support, at a reduced cost to the families.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 55.4%; rating input score 55
• Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings