KMTA | Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm
Legal name: Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm Nat'l Heritage Corridor Communities Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920173900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Girdwood, AK, United States
- Phone
- 2069209051
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $780,906
- Expenses
- $523,343
- Assets
- $710,237
- Liabilities
- $6,295
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Margaret Tyler (Board President)
- Jeff Samuels (Board Vice President)
- Rachel Freeman (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Rachel Freeman (Executive Director): $106,520 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our goal is to promote a variety of historical and cultural opportunities. We work with individuals and organizations to enhance the significance of our area. We inspire learning, preservation, and stewardship by getting involved. KMTA is a federally funded organization and uses these federal dollars to support grant projects. If you are awarded a grant, fund distribution will be made on a reimbursement basis. Grant recipients can submit for full reimbursement once the project is completed, or partial reimbursement on a quarterly basis throughout the duration of the project. Only fully documented and approved expenses will be reimbursed. At the project’s conclusion, final payment will be made upon receipt of a final impact report, expense report, and supporting documentation.
What it reported doing in 2024
In FY25, KMTA supported many community-based projects, including installing 16 signs across 25 miles of the Iditarod National Historic Trail, brushing 9 miles of historic trails, helping cleanup and maintain 3 campsites, and hosting 4 volunteer trail events. We helped provide training and professional development to 25 organizations and engaged 65 partners and 55+ volunteers who contributed nearly 7,000 volunteer hours to projects that supported local communities in the National Heritage Area. Additionally, we hosted our popular Spencer Glacier Dash recreation race that drew 125 participants to the region to experience travel on the Alaska Railroad and run through a historic part of our wild landscape.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 65% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 38
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 37.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $197K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.