Wildstar Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871939663
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Phone
5033131964
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,267
Expenses
$208,192
Assets
$13,135
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • VANESSA LINFIELD (BOARD CHAIR)
  • CHLOE SAROSH (SECRETARY)
  • PRAGNA PARSOTAM-KOK (DIRECTOR)

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

A charitable foundation that creates opportunities and career enhancing experiences to nurture and amplify global voices and talent in natural history filmmaking.

What it reported doing in 2025

Every year, the wildstar foundation provides fully funded placements to underrepresented individuals who are looking for a step-up in their careers. These are not entry level positions; they are suited to those who have a burgeoning career, but who may not have access to the opportunities, training, or contacts to help them build an international profile. These placements provide in-depth training opportunities to join wildstar's teams on-high profile productions on location around the world, followed by long-term mentoring and support in the industry.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -234.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -58.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -54% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.