Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 836047954
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cheyenne, WY, USA
- Phone
- 3077728751
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Farmland Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $751,371
- Expenses
- $860,834
- Assets
- $6,052,749
- Liabilities
- $692,548
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA CROWDER (FORMER EXEC): $115,347 total reported compensation
- JIM MAGAGNA (DIRECTOR): $98,554 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Natural habitat conservation and sustainable agriculture. See schedule o for additional information.
What it reported doing in 2024
To support the conservation of Wyoming's ranchlands through the use of agriculture conservation easements.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 44.1%; rating input score 44
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.03; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.9% of revenue deployed · 44.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $380K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.