Bear River Outdoor Recreation Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 830323977
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2023–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location: Evanston, WY, USA
Phone: 3076791686
Rating: 82
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue: $129,057
Expenses: $58,870
Assets: $222,059

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

FRANK SWAUGER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

JOSH WRIGHT (TREASURER)
FRANK SWAUGER (PRESIDENT)
GENA CALDWELL (SECRETARY)

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

B.r.o.r.a. Is a non-profit organization based within the city of evanston, Wyoming, uinta county, and the north slope of the wasatch-cache national forest. Its purpose is to assist and cooperate with local, state and federal governments in promoting, developing and maintaining outdoor recreation.

What it reported doing in 2025

In addition to coordinating with the evanston parks and recreation district in their maintenance of cross country ski trails located at the bear river parkway, bear river state park, purple sage golf course, aspen elementary, and uinta meadows elementary school, b.r.o.r.a. Actively helps the u.s. Forest service maintain ski trails and yurts in the lily lake ski area.

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 97% 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

STRONG - 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.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 66
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 78
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 54.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.77; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
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.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.