Cascade Leadership Challenge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300476636
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Phone
- 2064592231
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Citizenship
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,385
- Expenses
- $41,401
- Assets
- $29,042
- Liabilities
- $14,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dale Rae (President)
People named in this filing
- Dale Rae (President)
- Mark Steelquist (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
Youth character development through high adventure activity. Cascade Leadership Challenge is a Seattle based nonprofit organization that provides outdoor adventures and leadership opportunities to teenagers, ages 14-18. We have events and expeditions challenging members to develop skills, persevere through difficulties and stretch themselves into highly capable people.
What it reported doing in 2025
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.8%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -113.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.8% of revenue deployed · 23.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 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 30/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.