Adirondack Mountain Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150586270
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lake Placid, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5186684447
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,568,214
- Expenses
- $5,622,347
- Assets
- $7,962,044
- Liabilities
- $2,058,528
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICKEY ORTA (PRESIDENT)
- CHAD KILBOURNE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JULIA GOREN (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIA GOREN (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $114,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Adk is the only non-profit organization in New York state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the New York state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and chapters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Visitor centers: adk's two visitor centers, the high peaks information center (hpic) and cascade welcome center are year-round resources for recreationists, providing trip planning, weather reports, trail conditions, maps, and gear for rent or purchase to ensure safe, enjoyable adventures. The hpic provides essential preventative search and rescue (psar) education to help avoid rescues by an already overstressed forest ranger force. The hpic also provides bathroom facilities, which reduce both pressure on backcountry privies and the impacts of improperly disposed human waste. When hikers are lost or injured, the hpic is a base for nys forest rangers.continued on schedule ofor many of the 100,000 visitors to adk's property, their interaction with adk staff at the hpic is their only opportunity to engage with a knowledgeable authority on the adirondack park. The cascade welcome center is located on rte 73, outside the village of lake placid. It attracts both novice and experienced recreators seeking information or use the facility's trails. It is also a place where those who have not found a parking space at the busy trailhead at the hpic can regroup and get help finding another adventure. The cascade welcome center also hosts community events, provides a year-round front country trail experience, public restrooms, and guidance to other events and services in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.