Vermont · Nonprofit
Tracker Certification
Tracker Certification (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being South Sound Nature School ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Tracker Certification does
Mission
Our nonprofits core service is educational offering a range of resources support and professional certification to individuals seeking to enhance their wildlife tracking skills. We are dedicated to advancing the field of wildlife tracking by equipping enthusiasts with the necessary knowledge and tools to contribute meaningfully to conservation efforts. Through our programs participants gain hands-on experience theoretical expertise and networking opportunities essential for effective wildlife monitoring and research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Certification Support & Outreach: We facilitated delivery of 106 certification programs for 870 participants. We manage the certification calendar and certified tracker database supply tracker patches and worked with new program hosts to support certification training programs in new locales.
$23,133 spent49% of program spendingFinancial Access Program: We supported 44 participants with financial aid to attend certification programs based on an application process available through our website. Recipients received wildlife tracker training and certification across 14 different US states and 3 Canadian provinces.
$12,178 spentof which $11,188 as grants26% of program spendingCertified Wildlife Trackers Association CWTA: We launched a new professional association that provided a newsletter online educational events and networking tools for certified trackers. The CWTA attracted 143 members from its launch in April through December 2024.
$6,364 spent14% of program spendingNorth American Wildlife Tracker Conference: Planning for the online 2025 North American Wildlife Tracker Conference biennial online event including investment in conference hosting software.
$5,176 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,851.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $72k to $58k (−19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
56% of Tracker Certification’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Casey McFarland
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Tracker Certification’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Tracker Certification leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Tracker Certification.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Tracker Certification draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Tracker Certification's revenue fell 40% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Tracker Certification
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tracker Certification: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Tracker Certification?
- Tracker Certification (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being South Sound Nature School ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tracker Certification have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $34,500 in grants to Tracker Certification.
- Who is the largest funder of Tracker Certification?
- South Sound Nature School is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tracker Certification find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing