Kachina Amateur Radio Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860726587
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Show Low, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4807108815
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,522
- Expenses
- $5,230
- Assets
- $20,639
- Liabilities
- $1,089
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Parmenter (President)
- Mike Abernathy (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Parmenter (President)
- Mike Abernathy (Vice President)
- Marie Mortensen (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
Community Service - Combined volunteer hours the organization has provided throughout the year participating and assisting in the activities outlined below is estimated to exceed 4,200. The number of permanent, temporary, and visiting individuals is estimated to exceed 200,000.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community communication services equipment and maintenance - The organization provides reliable radio communication services and technical assistance for emergency management support throughout Navajo, Apache, and Coconino Counties in Arizona. These services are provided for fires, floods, snowstorms, pandemics, and manmade incidents such as railroad spills, truck overturns, homeland security incidents and other emergencies. In addition the organization provides equipment, communications services and volunteer communicators who donate their time and their personal radio equipment for use on the network. To provide these services the organization has installed repeaters, duplexers, power systems, emergency backup power, UHF link radios, controllers, antennas and other related equipment to provide 24/7 communication capabilities. Current and planned sites located within Navajo, Apache, and Coconino counties include Chevelon Butte, Brook Bank Point, Torreon, Greens Peak, Clay Springs, Cooley Mountain, and Admin Butte in Holbrook. These systems are tested daily. The number of permanent, temporary, and visiting individuals benefited in these counties is estimated to exceed 200,000. A large portion of the equipment outlined above is surplus and unused equipment donated by organizations and individuals which we thoroughly examine, repair, and upgrade as necessary to ensure its reliability and usefulness. Program service expenses for the year ended December 31, 2025 were: Depreciation of $3,083.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.5%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 58.9%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.95; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -34.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.5% of revenue deployed · 58.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.