Wildlife Restoration Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863749212
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7033000025
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,486
- Expenses
- $243,662
- Assets
- $72,722
- Liabilities
- $5,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE ANTON RANDALL (PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBER)
People named in this filing
- JULIE ANTON RANDALL (PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBER)
- SALLY MULVENA JACOBSEN (BOARD CHAIR)
- MARY WAGNER (BOARD TREASURER)
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
Wildlife restoration foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Virginia with the mission to support partners that together can increase park wildlife population viability and create safe corridors for wildlife passage in harmony with human communities. Wrf assembles and supports, with neutral facilitation and written resources, partnerships between aza-accredited zoos/aquariums and parks. Wrf also convenes diverse stakeholders in workshops that help solve conservation problems.
What it reported doing in 2025
Imofolozi project: the defending a south african wilderness from wildlife crime project, or "the imfolozi project," is a collaborative initiative led by the wildlife restoration foundation (wrf) and the wilderness leadership school (wls) to protect wildlife in hluhluwe-imfolozi provincial park (hip) in south africa and yellowstone national park (ynp) in the us. The project aims to combat sophisticated poaching threats in these iconic parks, which are home to critical populations of endangered species.hip, located in kwazulu-natal province, harbors about half of south africa's wild rhinos (1,500-1,800), while ynp is crucial for conserving bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. However, provincial parks' capacity to fight poaching has diminished due to budget constraints, staff reductions, and pandemic-related challenges. The project leverages wls guides' advanced outdoor skills to supplement anti-poaching efforts. These guides have transitioned into anti-poaching unit assistants, enhancing the effectiveness of ezemvelo kzn wildlife (ekznw) anti-poaching units (apus). Wls has also established rhino and bio-monitoring patrols (rbmps) and community trails to improve surveillance and engage local residents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
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: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
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: -39.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $181K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.