World Parks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461834827
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Richmond, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5107345826
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,037
- Expenses
- $80,468
- Assets
- $134,020
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeff Shea (President)
People named in this filing
- Jeff Shea (President)
- Kathleen Passalacqua (Sec./Treasurer)
- Tom Sipul (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
The specific purposes of this corporation are to promote, support, facilitate the establishment of, and establish world parks, which will consist of large tracts of land on each of the continents, set aside and maintained by the international community, in the parks natural state, unencumbered by the inventions of modern man, under rules providing for the parks permanent preservation as wilderness areas, so that future generations will always have access to and the ability to learn about and enjoy the original natural world.
What it reported doing in 2025
World Parks, Inc. conducted programs in four countries in 2024: USA, Kenya, Cameroon, Haiti. The overall goal in 2025 was to further strengthen management team and develop budding projects, including building relationships with scientists and working on tree planting and checklists for South American Wildlife Corridor project.Here is a breakdown of the projects: USA: Continued work for South American Wildlife Corridor project. Began creating checklist for wildlife along corridor. Identified cadre of participating scientists. Discovered new species of insect in Venezuela. (Paper is being written for publication in 2026.)Kenya: Incorporated World Parks, Inc. Kenya. Held Board meeting. Continued discussions and tentatively agreed on MOU with Ishaqbini Community critically endangered Hirola. Cameroon: By year end 2025, total of 7400 trees were planted in Rhumsiki. Haiti: By year end 2025, total of 6500 trees were planted in Capotille.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -568.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -181.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -40.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.