Desperados

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
365096073
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Carefree, AZ, USA
Phone
4804421822
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,127
Expenses
$39,066
Assets
$285,685
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robert Borsch (President)
  • Troy Gillenwater (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Robert Borsch (President)
  • Troy Gillenwater (Vice President)
  • Sharon Wong (Secretary 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

Educational and Conservation Efforts to Inform and Inspire People and Organizations to Protect and Preserve and Participate in Trails and other Outdoor Activities on Desert Mountain and in the Sonoran Desert Foothills. Desperados will pursue and establish relationships and partnerships with likeminded regional charitable conservation organizations that want to help conserve, protect, and enjoy the Sonoran Desert foothills culture, outdoor trails, other outdoor features and resources, and enjoy the experience of the foothills.

What it reported doing in 2025

Carefree Park is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the mission of acquiring, preserving and making accessible to the community the last remaining 48 acres of Sonoran Desert in Carefree.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 35%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.31; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.