Journey Quest

Overview

Mission

“To provide Christ-centered wilderness journeys, challenging young and old alike to pursue the ultimate quest: a lifelong relationship with Christ.” What We Believe. Journey Quest invests much more individual time than most companies in guide-training. Our guides receive at least 100 hours of on-river training before guiding guests — that’s twice the state requirement followed by most outfitters. At a minimum, each of our guides is trained and certified in _Whitewater Rescue, Wilderness First Aid_ and _CPR_. Many of them are certified at higher levels such as _Wilderness First Responder_ or _Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)_. Individual Attention Journey Quest is a smaller outfitter and we are able to provide individual attention for you and your family. Most outfitters attempt to fill every boat with 6-8 guests as this is more profitable, even if this.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

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 - 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: 80
• Transparency & Controls: 92
• Accountability: 62
• Sustainability: 24
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $405K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 7 people listed
• Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
• Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
• 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.