Idaho Business for the Outdoors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821973091
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2089498961
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,615
- Expenses
- $78,359
- Assets
- $76,733
- Liabilities
- $1,294
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALYSON FOSTER (PRESIDENT)
- ILANA RUBEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALYSON FOSTER (PRESIDENT)
- ILANA RUBEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JESS GEHIN (TREASURER)
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
Idaho business for the outdoors' (ibo) mission is to provide a collective, non-partisan business voice in support of the investments, jobs, innovations, revenues and wellness benefits sustained through the preservation of Idaho's outdoors and public lands. We support research, education and advocacy work that promotes the jobs, revenues, innovations and wellness benefits sustained through the preservation of our outdoors and public lands. Through newsletters and social media, we keep our members informed on public land use and management issues. We drive partnerships with university economic departments to support research that measures the economic value of our outdoors from health benefits/heath savings to our outdoors as a marketing recruitment and retention asset for our businesses. We also support and advocate for policies and legislation that sustain and protect our public lands.
What it reported doing in 2025
Facilitating education through our monthly newsletter, promoting access to Idaho's outdoors as a social determinant of health, especially for underserved communities as part of our partnership with the Idaho department of health and welfare and the Idaho department of parks and recreation to help sponsor the new foster family parks pass program serving all foster families and children in the state, and hosting business learning roundtables to explore how businesses value and support our outdoors and public lands. We also engage our community by hosting volunteer events to clean up trash, remove noxious weeds, and plant native seedlings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.5%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 37.1%; rating input score 37
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: -25.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.5% of revenue deployed · 37.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.