Blazing New Trails Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921028452
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Corona, CA, USA
Phone
9514718425
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$177,552
Expenses
$117,193
Assets
$147,987
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PHIL BROWN (PRIOR PRESIDENT)
  • BRIAN SEITZ (President)

People named in this filing

  • PHIL BROWN (PRIOR PRESIDENT)
  • MARK WARREN (DIRECTOR)
  • ROBERT SHANK (Director)

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

Religious

What it reported doing in 2025

Blazing New Trails is a Christian ministry designed to bring healing to the hearts & souls of law enforcement officers and their spouses.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.2%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96

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: 34%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 44.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.2% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $112K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 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
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.