Wildlife Impact
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474310479
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5037657768
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection of Endangered Species
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,911
- Expenses
- $287,777
- Assets
- $93,247
- Liabilities
- $9,142
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- JULIE SHERMAN (EXECUTIVEDIR)
- JENNIFER KOEPCKE (TREASURER)
- LINDA BRENT (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
Protect wildlife and ecosystems through research, evidence-based evaluation, capacity development and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Researching and promoting effective conservation strategies for great apes and other wildlife capacity building for conservation and translocation projects and welfare of confiscated and displaced wildlife. Evaluation of conservation and welfare impacts of great ape projects. Best practice guidelines for responsible translocation of displaced organisms. Best practice guidelines for wild-to-wild translocation of orangutans. Research on community conflicts with orangutans, and implementation of projects to address human-orangutan conflicts and promote coexistence. Addressing illegal pet trade and commercial trade in primates - advocating for improved implementation of the convention on the international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora. Collating and publishing statistics on wildlife crimes affecting great apes. Assessing the effectiveness of actions to prevent wildlife crime, and advocating for improved crime prevention. Providing monitoring and evaluation, capacity development, and technical assistance services for frontline conservation projects. Supporting efforts to combat illegal poaching and wildlife trade in angola and malaysia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -60%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $266K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2016 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 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.