Glacier Peak Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812374247
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Darrington, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3604366445
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- General Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $971,211
- Expenses
- $1,054,307
- Assets
- $243,775
- Liabilities
- $16,461
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Rankin (President)
- Garret Gladsjo (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Oak Rankin (Executive Dir.): $87,360 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering youth to build resilient and sustainable rural communities and healthy ecosystems across the Glacier Peak region of Western Washington through innovative, action-based education programs integrating science, technology, recreation, engineering, art, mathematics, and skill-building.
What it reported doing in 2024
After-school and summer youth programming - Glacier Peak Institute provides STrEaMs-based outdoor programming for at-risk youth; building resiliency through environmental science education, youth development, and exploration of the natural world through activities such as hiking, camping, gardening, foraging, mountain biking, kayaking, and river rafting
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 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $791K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.