Wildmon Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991211453
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lewes, DE, USA
Phone
7874330065
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Wildlife Preservation, Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$949,715
Expenses
$848,749
Assets
$101,187
Liabilities
$221

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christina Durkin (Chief Development - Founder President)
  • Marconi Campos Cerqueira (Chief Science - Founder Vice President)
  • Jorge Ahumada (Chief Conservation - Founder Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Marconi Campos Cerqueira (Chief Science - Founder Vice President): $29,000 total reported compensation
  • Christina Durkin (Chief Development - Founder President): $20,010 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wildmon Inc optimizes ecoacoustic camera trapping eDNA and AI solutions to provide a holistic understanding of biodiversity that is vital to evaluate the performance of conservation initiatives and enable proactive measures towards effective species and ecosystem conservation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Led by the University of Antwerp RESTOREID unites global institutions to study how ecosystem restoration influences biodiversity ecological health and disease dynamics. Within this consortium WildMon leads biodiversity monitoring in Belgium and Uganda deploying standardized acoustic protocols across 30 sites per region and advising on survey designs across the wider 210-site network. Using its AI-powered ecoacoustic pipeline WildMon analyzes soundscapes to track species richness and ecological integrity while building local research capacity and contributing critical data linking biodiversity recovery to disease resilience.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 40
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $128.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 10.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $687K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.