Issaquah Alps Trails Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911081852
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Issaquah, WA, USA
Phone
8443924282
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$193,681
Expenses
$174,974
Assets
$377,244
Liabilities
$413

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelly Jiang (President)
  • Svet Semov (Vice-President)
  • Kim Ngo (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kelly Jiang (President)
  • David Kappler (Co-Founder)
  • Suzanne Kagen (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See Schedule O

What it reported doing in 2025

Land Conservation Advocacy and Outreach to Promote the Issquah Alps - See Schedule O

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: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.1%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 41

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.1% of revenue deployed · 41.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 37/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.