Adventure Rabbi: Synagogue W/o Walls
Legal name: Adventure Rabbi Synagogue Wo Walls
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510484087
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Longmont, CO, United States
- Phone
- 303.353.8130
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $437,939
- Expenses
- $485,096
- Assets
- $155,667
- Liabilities
- $137,841
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan McGrady (Vice President)
- RACHEL BIEDERMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMIE KORNGOLD (SECRETARY): $97,067 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our organization is sustained by the generous donations of our members and partners. We are a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization and your donations are tax deductible. DONATE Copyright © 2001-2026, Adventure Rabbi: Synagogue w/o Walls. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Refund Policy | Sitemap Adventure Rabbi. Hear about the Creation of the Adventure Rabbi Program Words cannot express how grateful I am to you for this incredible journey and experience. Through the past few years, you have made me feel so embraced and inspired by the Jewish community. You have been open, encouraging and so helpful...- Maia Being brought up in a very conservative Jewish family, I had learned the sense of community from the temple we belonged to. My parents' friends and their children who were my friends, were all a part of that community, so I carry my Judaism in my heart and soul as a member of a...
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization supports the community through religious service events honoring the practice of judaism in the environment of the outdoors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 98.1% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $430K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.