Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch Co

What it reported doing in 2024

Hope for the Family Accomplishments in 2024Refuge Fellowship: The Ranch continued to host monthly Refuge Fellowship gatherings throughout 2024. We hosted Refuge on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, and the attendance to each one of these events fluctuated between 150-350 people. We estimate that approximately 2,450 people came to Refuge in 2024.Family Events:-Harvest DaysFamilies were invited to come harvest our root vegetable patch, potatoes, and take part in breakout classes led by our staff to create fun, positive learning opportunities for kids & parents to experience together. Sewing, woodworking, making applesauce, leatherworking, and a kids sensory hay maze were offered. In addition to making positive memories as a family unit, the participants learned life skills that they can now use to be able to cut costs and repurpose items in their own homes. As we are able to continue to grow fruits & vegetables on the property, we are hopeful for our Harvest Day to become a literal harvest of our own orchard that teaches kids & families how to correctly can and store their own food. In 2024, we had 91 people attend our Harvest Day, and over a dozen volunteers join to support teaching classes and harvesting.-Camp Eagle CapOne of our new referral organizations is a local non-profit that takes children ages 10-12 on a wilderness retreat out in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. The campers and leaders ride in 8 miles to the lodge on horseback, so they come to Crystal Peaks to learn the foundations of horsemanship. We continued our partnership in 2024 of teaching these campers and saw 75 adults & children from Camp Eagle Cap. Food Production:-We harvested approximately 4,000 onions and 4,000 pounds of potatoes from the CPYR root vegetable garden last fall during our annual Harvest Day. With those potatoes & onions, we were able to bless 50+ families (and counting) and donate hundreds of pounds of food to local food shelters. -In addition, the greenhouse on the main ranch continued to bless families with ripe heirloom produce all season, including tomatoes, cucumbers, Swiss chard, rhubarb, peppers, figs, pumpkins, carrots, peas, green beans, and a variety of herbs. Anyone visiting the Ranch is offered fresh fruits & vegetables to take as much as they can use. Because of this, we saw kids truly turning the corner to enjoy the process of gardening and being willing to try a larger variety of foods that they otherwise may not have. What a joy to see kids try these rich, delicious foods for the first time and love them because they grew them! Referral Organization Partnerships:-CPYR continued to invest in making connections with local organizations, creating the opportunity for families to participate in our programming who otherwise would not know that our program is available to the children they serve. Because our services are completely free of charge, there are many children and teens who are able to receive the support and care they are desperate for, in an area where our local social service organizations are over-run with more needs than resources available. CPYR provides priority scheduling for these families that enter CPYR through our referrals, and we led 56 sessions through our referral partnerships in 2024. In-Kind Donations & Donor Partnerships:-In-kind donations of non-perishable food, clothing, shoes, and all-weather gear continues to rise. We had 42 in-kind donors who gave a total of $23,425 in 2024. We believe this number continues to grow in part because of our improved communication to the public, but also largely due to families who have received from the ministry that are coming back to bless other families in need. We received hundreds of in-kind donations in 2024, and we expanded to partner with a global non-profit called Lionheart Ministries, which sends Christ-centered childrens books to be distributed to any & all visitors who want resources to break down the message of the Gospel into palatable conversations with kids.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -24.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.08; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings