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Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
275103710
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Woodside, CA, USA
Phone
6505333357
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,811
Expenses
$53,012
Assets
$4,564
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDREW BRYAN (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • LESLIE JOHNSON (CO-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ANDREW BRYAN (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • LESLIE JOHNSON (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • KATHY WELLS (CFO)

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

To provide emerging adults with a trekking experience, in an intercultural setting, which promotes self-awareness and discovery of unique talents and gifts and how best to apply them to planning personal, educational, and professional goals.

What it reported doing in 2025

1) further developed and refined organizational plan.2) did strategic business planning, including fundraising.3) implemented trek curriculum and facilitation and maintained website.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -40.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.