WildRoots Collective
Legal name: Wildroots Collective for Learning and Stewardship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473491528
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Gales Creek, OR, US
- Phone
- 440-479-4813
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $403,050
- Expenses
- $403,150
- Assets
- $51,013
- Liabilities
- $5,075
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FALLON HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- FALLON HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $60,031 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At WildRoots, we create inclusive, nature-based educational experiences that center equity, diversity, and inclusion while fostering a deep connection to the natural world. We build resilient communities by providing hands-on learning opportunities, empowering underserved populations, and promoting environmental stewardship.
What it reported doing in 2024
Naturedays includes a forest and farm school. These are full nature immersion classes for children 5-15. Participants learn primitive skills, nature skills, and explore academic subjects in the outdoor classroom.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -0%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $312K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.