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WHEELER WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 63-1195705 DECATUR, AL

Largest nonprofits in Alabama

Revenue 2025
$65,238
Expenses 2025
$67,425

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D34
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 5220

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

THE ASSOCIATION'S MISSION IS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS HELD AT THE VISITOR'S CENTER AND TO ASSIST WITH SPECIAL PROJECTS AT WHEELER NATIIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AS SELL AS SUPPORTING MULTIPLE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN GRADES K-12.

  • THE ASSOCIATION'S ASSISTS WITH TEH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE CRANES, THE WINGS TO SOAR PROGRAM, AND OPEN HOUSE. THESE PROGRAMS ARE HELD ANNUALLY AT THE WHEELER NATIONAL REFUGE VISITOR CENTER. THESE EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

    Expenses $67,425

  • THE ASSOICATION ASSISTS WITH SUMMER DAY CAMP PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AGES 8- 13. THE YOUTH FISHING RODEO FOR CHILDREN AGES 5-12, AND THE JUNIOR DUCK STAMP ART CONTEST FOR ALL STUDENTS IN ALABAMA, GRADES K-12. THESE ARE HELD ANNUALLY AT THE WHEELER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE VISITOR CENTER.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mary Ratliff

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    10
  • Susan Estes

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Hobdell

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Theresa Ann Lowery

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patricia Alred

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nicole Mashburn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tom Ress

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Teresa Adams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $65,238
    Expenses
    $67,425
    Contributions
    $26,875
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $108,484
    Expenses
    $64,674
    Contributions
    $76,487
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $89,232
    Expenses
    $44,042
    Contributions
    $73,449
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $63,744
    Expenses
    $33,497
    Contributions
    $55,945
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $44,952
    Expenses
    $25,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,623
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $51,147
    Expenses
    $33,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,726
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,146
    Expenses
    $41,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,394

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Mary Ratliff
Mailing address
PO Box 239Decatur AL 35602
Website
www.friendsofwheelerrefuge.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.