Wildwood Alc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813408786
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Boone, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8287735465
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $216,963
- Expenses
- $171,681
- Assets
- $113,632
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REBEKAH CANU (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REBEKAH CANU (PRESIDENT): $16,000 total reported compensation
- ALLISON MARSTON (MEMBER): $11,000 total reported compensation
- NICOLE SCHOYCHID (VICE PRESIDE): $8,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wildwood agile learning community is a not-for-profit, self-directed micro-school located in watauga county nc. Our mixed age environment (7 - teen years) is rooted in trust, self-direction, social responsibility and personal growth. We provide an environment where individuals have support and space to define their own path, question structures that inhibit growth, and contribute to a culture of empowerment and mutual respect.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 43.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $172K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.