Friends of the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510620242
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Mount Shasta, CA, USA
Phone
3603013040
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,259
Expenses
$72,024
Assets
$153,757
Liabilities
$2,773

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CASEY GLAUBMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • HANNE MEYERS (PRESIDENT)
  • SEAN MALEE (VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • CASEY GLAUBMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • HANNE MEYERS (PRESIDENT)
  • SEAN MALEE (VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR)

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

Friends of the mt shasta avalanche center functions as a partnership between the us forest service and fmsac to endeavor to sustain our local avalanche center. We strive to keep safe those that find their soul in the freedom of our mountains and look to educate a well informed community of backcountry users by provide professional forecasting, real time information and avalanche safety training

What it reported doing in 2025

Each year fmsac provides funding for avalanche forecasting operations of the avalanche center. It houses 2 full time avalanche forecasters and one professional field observer and provides infrastructure, safety equipment, and supervision. Forecasters gather avalanche, snowpack, and weather observations and then use the data to create and issue avalanche forecasts and warnings. Forecasters also function as climbing rangers on mount shasta and teach educational components throughout the winter months

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 85% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.1%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 58.4%; rating input score 58

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: 15.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 46.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.1% of revenue deployed · 58.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.