WildTrack Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680681539
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9193453690
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $487,316
- Expenses
- $230,262
- Assets
- $517,593
- Liabilities
- $5,883
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zoe Jewell (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Zoe Jewell (President): $73,901 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
WildTracks mission is to protect endangered species using a unique combination of advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence and traditional ecological knowledge.
What it reported doing in 2025
WildTracks Professional Wildlife Management program advances non-invasive wildlife monitoring, biodiversity assessment, and conservation technology through footprint identification, machine learning, and field-based research. A central focus in 2025 was WildTracks collaborative security and conservation initiative in Botswana, conducted in active partnership with the U.S. Army and the Botswana Defence Force (BDF). This initiative applies AI-powered footprint identification technology and traditional ecological knowledge to strengthen both human and wildlife security in one of Africas most ecologically significant regions. The work directly addresses the illegal trade in endangered species a recognized threat to national and regional security, with wildlife trafficking increasingly identified as a source of financing for transnational criminal organizations and armed groups. (continued on Schedule O)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $70.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 52.7%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.2% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $195K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.