Austin Outside
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844066912
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5126575414
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,073
- Expenses
- $37,452
- Assets
- $73,490
- Liabilities
- $465
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kari Spiegelhalter (President)
- Drew Carman (Vice President)
- Joanna Wolaver Former (President)
People named in this filing
- Kari Spiegelhalter (President)
- Drew Carman (Vice President)
- Ted Siff (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Austin Outside champions vibrant and thriving outdoor places for all in Greater Austin, and serves as a hub for our member organizations to empower a healthier Austin for all. We envision a Greater Austin where everyone lives within a ten minute walk of a high-quality outdoor park, greenspace or natural area that is connected by a safe and comfortable network of trails, bikeways and sidewalks, and where our biodiverse and ecologically resilient region protects both wildlife and people.
What it reported doing in 2025
Austin Outside (AO) hosted more than 50 committee meetings for its members interested in local government issues concerning parks, open space, trails, sidewalks, bikeways, and concerning public environmental investments. The AO Board issues more than 25 policy statements and support letters concerning these policies. AO also hosted events and promoted it's members events throughout 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.9%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.9% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.