Climb Avy Aware

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932309096
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Boulder, CO, USA
Phone
9176641336
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Safety Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,066
Expenses
$42,901
Assets
$60,505

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robin Miles (President, Treasurer & Board Member)
  • Mike Soucy (Vice President and Board Member)

People named in this filing

  • Robin Miles (President, Treasurer & Board Member)
  • Mike Soucy (Vice President and Board Member)
  • Keith Stinebaugh (Secretary and Board Member)

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

Promotion of avalanche awareness and safety for climbers and the education of climbers and other members of the public who might be recreating in Colorado's backcountry avalanche terrain. Specifically, provides climbers with important information regarding the complexity of specific climbing areas situated in avalanche terrain, so that climbers can make informed route decisions. Also, promotes avalanche safety education for climbers and the use of avalanche safety gear when the chose terrain and avalanche forecast warrant extra caution.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conducted four events to educate climbers on the use of the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% 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: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40.7%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 13

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: -151.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -124.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -137.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -35.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 40.7% of revenue deployed · 13.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 41/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.