Wolf Park Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
351281510
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Battle Ground, IN, USA
Phone
7655672265
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Land Resources Conservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$2,419,935
Liabilities
$64,513

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEN SCHUMAKER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JEN SCHUMAKER (PRESIDENT)
  • SUSAN ROWE (PAST PRESIDE)
  • STEVE KNECHT (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wolf park is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to behavorial research, education, and conservation, with the objective of improving the public's understanding of wolves and the value they provide to our environment.

What it reported doing in 2024

The core program activities of wolf park are general public education and the care of the resident animal ambassadors. The park hosts the general public throughout the year. In 2022, we hosted over 20,000 visitors at the park. Visitors can tour the park which includes a pack of wolves living in a six-acre natural habitat, plus additional animals including wolves, coyotes, foxes, and bison in other enclosures. Staff members present lectures and demonstrations of wolf behavior. Wolf park's 1,500+ members receive a quarterly informational and educational newsletter. They can also attend member events and receive discounts. Animal care and husbandry standards are maintained at the highest levels of quality. In addition to routine and non-routine veterinary care, wolf park maintains a very active environmental enrichment program.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 76
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 3
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 5th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.