Grand Canyon River Runners Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
710972946
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Sedona, AZ, USA
Phone
9286078558
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Amateur Sports

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,344
Expenses
$27,961
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAMELA WHITNEY (President/Treas)

People named in this filing

  • PAMELA WHITNEY (President/Treas)
  • ROBERT MCCONNELL (Director)
  • JAN TAYLOR (Secretary)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promote conservation activities and provide educational programs which promote the conservation of and public awareness regarding the management and administration by the National Park Service of the Colorado River as it flows through Grand Canyon National Park.

What it reported doing in 2019

Preserving Public Access to the Colorado RiverTo defend, protect, and perpetuate the long history of general public access to the Grand Canyon river expeience as facilitated by a licensed professional National Park Service river concessioner; To vigorously participate in all official government decision making processes relating to the general public's visitation rights to the Colorad River corridor within Grand Canyon National Park; To alert and educate the general public on Grand Canoyon Colorado River management issues, with emphasis on allocation of recreational river use, trip diversity, and the need to continue environmentally responsible motorized and non-motorized use; to promote the highest ideals of resource stewardship and responsible, sustainable use of the Grand Canyon's Colorado River corridor as fully consistent with maintenance of the area in an unimpaired natural condition.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 98% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,980.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -77.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -57.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2016 to 2019
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.