Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911553023
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- North Bend, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2065242900
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,194,812
- Expenses
- $3,181,146
- Assets
- $2,473,565
- Liabilities
- $179,774
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tara Moser (Interim Executive Director March - July 2024)
- Yvonne Kraus (Executive Director to March 2024)
- Eddie Espinosa (Executive Director from July 2024)
- Tony Hickok (President)
- Tyler Forman (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Micah Shapiro (Finance Director): $107,402 total reported compensation
- Tara Moser (Interim Executive Director March - July 2024): $101,473 total reported compensation
- Yvonne Kraus (Executive Director to March 2024): $61,666 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Evergreen's mission is to create, maintain, and protect sustainable mountain biking opportunities in Washington State.
What it reported doing in 2024
COMMUNITY BUILDING & ADVOCACY: Our events build community and nurture future mountain bike leaders, teachers, volunteers, and trail stewards. We promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion through adaptive mountain biking events and women and non-binary work parties. We fostered environmental responsibility, sustainable practices, volunteerism, and healthy lifestyles within our community. Evergreen hosted 14 core community events across Washington State in 2024. 240 group rides were offered throughout the state, with 984 registered group ride participants. Of these, 61 were Crank Sisters women's rides, bringing together a total of 353 female participants. The 2024 Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival had 687 registered attendees and an estimated 1,500 visitors over the festival weekend. Spring Fling returned in March bringing 100+ volunteers to Raging River for trail maintenance and community building. Duthie Jam brought over 200 visitors to the Duthie Hill bike park in May, including pro rider Matt Jones from Australia. Shovel & Shred, presented by Red Bull, brought over 70 women and nonbinary riders to Darrington in May for trail maintenance and rides on North Mountain. And an estimated 1,000 people attended Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day in October across 3 Chapters (Cascades To Sound, Central, and East Chapter). EVERGREEN MEMBERS: The 2024 Virtual Member Meeting had 121 registered participants via Zoom, with presentations from 6 Evergreen Staff members and 8 Chapter Board Members. Evergreen Membership peaked in January with 8,534 members. The annual Membership Drive in September brought in 260 new Memberships and 1,938 renewed Memberships from those previously expired (or set to expire soon), resulting in a 127% retention rate (1,521 were set to expire that month). ADVOCATING FOR TRAILS: Our advocacy focused on raising awareness and engaging our supporters in public lands access protection, addressing recreational access challenges and opportunities, and ensuring that mountain bikers have a strong voice in recreational trail planning and development initiatives. Our activities were diverse and statewide, ranging from participating in the Parks and Great Outdoors Legislative Day to advocating for the EXPLORE Act, which passed in December 2024, and partnering with the Outdoor Alliance to communicate advocacy alerts to our followers. We engage our members in advocacy through topic-specific meetings, e-newsletters, social media, in-person interactions at trailheads, and electronic advocacy alerts designed to encourage member participation and comments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.3%; rating input score 90; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.