Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve & Edu Cation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454482956
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Mancos, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9705337592
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,284
- Expenses
- $180,019
- Assets
- $8,652
- Liabilities
- $35,965
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KERIN MCCLURE (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN BARTLETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LEE CLOY (PROPERTY MANAGER)
- CINDY COLEMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- PEGGY CLOY (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Willowtail springs nature preserve and education center was organized to conserve, expand and improve the existing 60 acres of willowtail springs, its buildings and its diverse and rich eco systems; to support and encourage those who seek to conserve, protect, and renew nature; to promote education through the arts and sciences; and to provide a protected environment, allowing those practitioners to pursue their vision through exploration, reflection, research, collaboration and creative talents. Of growing importance is the community "giveback" which is part of this residency program. This involves classes, presentations, demonstrations, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and lectures which the residents share with the community.
What it reported doing in 2023
2023 was a big year for willowtail. All our events in 2023 were free to the public as part of our presentation to the community resulting from the scholarship residents' payback for their time at willowtail. Peggy was featured on metv, a station out of denver. She was interviewed by jennifer broome. Lorena williams presented a writing workshop in the treehouse gallery. Patrice day lorenzo held a meditative painting workshop. Sharon wolf presented a botanical painting class. Sw youth conservation corp came for two weeks and created a new, beautiful path from the parking area through the forest and over a stream to the main willowtail center. Poetry reading and medicinal plant walk with eirene hamilton. Beginning of our new program of free garden tours for the public. These continued every month, may through october. Some of these included a talk or presentation on specific areas of plants and gardening. Brenda jones ceramic workshop. Anne wetherill reading poetry. Josh mendrala gave a music clinic at fenceline cidery. Navajo playwrite, blossom johnson, hosted a reading of her new play written at willowtail. Windswept trio performed at turquoise raven gallery in cortez to a packed house. Jeanye mercer taught open freeform painting class at willowtail, very well attended. Willowtail opened a show of several residents, called willowtail inspirations, at create art and tea.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 50.5%; rating input score 50
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: 3.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.16; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 50.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2023
- 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 49/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.