Backcountry Communities Thriving
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872679329
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Julian, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8584493812
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,551
- Expenses
- $198,193
- Assets
- $89,944
- Liabilities
- $1,971
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cheryl Bakken (President)
People named in this filing
- Hilary Ward (Executive Direc)
- Kim Simas (CFO)
- Britni Mushet (ED Pro-Tem)
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
Backcountry Communities Thriving's goal is to ensure the well-being of each child, family and individual in Julian and the surrounding rural areas through advocacy, service and support to foster a thriving community.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.5%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 51.2%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.5% of revenue deployed · 51.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 59/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.