Downtown Driggs Association

What it reported doing in 2024

Fiscal year ending 2025 program overview in 2025, dda delivered 34 programs and hosted 182 professional and emerging artists including painters, sculptors, artisans, actors and musicians for in-person audiences of an estimated 13,990 individuals. 595 community volunteer slots were filled with individuals of all ages who supported dda's programs in 2025. We collaborated with 52 local businesses partners and 33 local nonprofit program collaborators. Shakespeare in the park participants = 12 professional actors. Audience = 400 people. On july 28th, the 12th annual shakespeare in the parks was held outdoors at the teton county courthouse lawn in driggs, performing shakespeare's immortal tragedy hamlet. The stage was constructed onsite and play performed by professional actors from Montana shakespeare in the parks, the nationally recognized outreach program of the college of arts and architecture at Montana state university. The local nonprofit act foundation offered an opening performance of vaudeville skits to much applause on the shakespeare stage. Driggs scarecrow contest and downtown trick or treat participants = 43 driggs businesses. Audience = 4,000 over the course of 4 weeks downtown driggs association celebrates the spirit of the harvest with the 6th annual driggs scarecrow contest, with original scarecrows created by local businesses and non-profits on-display from october 7 through october 31. Forty-seven local businesses participated, constructing elaborate scenes with scarecrows displayed in front of their establishments. The community voted for their favorite for 5 thematic categories, cash prizes were awarded to the winners. A grand total of 2,645 votes were cast, 888 more than last year. More than 1500 individuals dressed in the scary, sparkly, or silly costumes to trick or treat at downtown driggs businesses on halloween, october 31, which was also the culminating day for scarecrow voting. Teton valley welcome center 2025 marks the second year downtown driggs association has managed the teton valley welcome center, rebranded from its original name, the teton geotourism center. The space was established as a teton scenic byway visitor center and gateway to Idaho along the 69-mile drive that runs from swan valley on hwy 31 to teton valley through victor, driggs, and tetonia on hwy 33, through felt to ashton on hwy 32. The byway, built in 1977, parallels the western edge of the teton mountains and the Wyoming state line and offers breathtaking views and historical markers along the way. The building benefits the byway traveler with amenities including a rest area, public restrooms, access to retail shops and restaurants, and byway and visitor wayfaring information including maps, brochures, local newspapers and magazines marketing area attractions. With the support of eight well-informed community volunteers, dda offers personal tourism support and valley cultural and historic information for byway visitors and community members alike. The welcome center also contains a substantial interpretive gallery, with themes and stories reflecting teton valley's history, culture, ecology, and economy. Among the objects on display are mountain man clothing and tools, chevron trade beads and a flint-lock trade gun, a dogsled, a taxidermy grizzly bear and sandhill crane, a beaver skin top hat, native trout species, shoshone beaded moccasins, finely-chipped arrowheads, backcountry ski gear, a hot air balloon, and much more. Dda has implemented a new series of rotating exhibits. 2025 exhibits included wetlands and amphibians of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, a partnership with the Idaho state university, and driggs' darlin' clementine, the first rendition of our community portraits series that highlights individuals, including animals like clementine the horse, who have greatly contributed to the teton valley community. Total program audience: 13,500 total geo attendance: 6,500 total artists: 184

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
• Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
• Fundraising efficiency: $19.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 19.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings