High Desert Junior Shooters Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383825391
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Phone
7607931613
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Amateur Sports

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,206
Expenses
$16,689
Assets
$79,893

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Jim Eichler (Director)
  • Dennis Malefyt (Director)
  • Leo Spanner (Executive Dir.)

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

It is the mission of the High Desert Junior Shooters to promote safe gun handling and all gun safety to the youth of the California High Desert area. And to provide a structured venue of Trap Shooting to promote sportsmanship in a competitive environment. It is believed that by showing youth safe gun handling will help prevent gun accidents.

What it reported doing in 2025

The High Desert Junior Shooters held six (6) structured trap shooting events during 2022. The events provide a venue for youth, ages 9 to 19, to participate and compete in structured Trap Shooting that teaches safe gun handling and shooting safety, along with competitive sportsmanship. The program served a total of about 60 youth of which 35 to 40 attended any one of the six events. In addition to the above, the organization sponsored monthly practice shoots at which time new shooters were introduced to the sport and gun safety was taught to each participant.

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
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.8%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; 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: 49.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.79; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.8% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.