Wyoming Wilderness Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383667856
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sheridan, WY, USA
- Phone
- 3076722751
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $364,346
- Expenses
- $391,236
- Assets
- $1,135,318
- Liabilities
- $8,179
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- AARON BANNON (EXECUTIVE DI): $6,154 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Wyoming wilderness association works to protect Wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, wwa continued to serve and fill leadership roles on collaborative decision-making committees and boards around the state, including the bridger-teton working group, the Wyoming bureau of land management coalition, and the keep it public Wyoming coalition. Wwa educates committee members and our supporters around public land management and proposed legislation. Public comment was gathered from wwa email alerts, notices, comment portals, public meeting updates, and postcard campaigns. Additionally, wwa hosted and attended multiple virtual and live public meetings, presentations, and panel discussions to inform the public and encourage personalized comments around large scale plans, such as the rock springs bureau of land management resource management plan amendment and the public lands rule rescission. Many constituents find value in these wild landscapes and wwa informs the public on how to stay engaged and have their voices heard. Wwa continued to advocate for wilderness study areas, designated wilderness, the public lands rule and the roadless rule by traveling to dc twice in 2025. Initiating 14 multiple meetings with congressional leaders and staff. Wwa continued to make great strides in 2025 around collaboration, communication and relationship-building with various stakeholders, with a continued emphasis on tribal, federal agency and conservation group engagement who also work on these landscapes. Partnership efforts included stewardship projects, film screening events, outdoor recreation outings, informational events, youth engagement, land management meetings and the opportunity to serve on various panels and present during conservation forums.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $741.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.9; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $300K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.