Man Up Adventures Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842639514
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Mc Allister, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4069029075
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,878
- Expenses
- $123,997
- Assets
- $74,525
- Liabilities
- $4,823
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nathan J Thompson (President)
People named in this filing
- Nathan J Thompson (President)
- Galen J Thompson (Secretary)
- David Julson (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization will be a ministry teaching and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, committed to equip and empower todays man to successfully navigate manhood.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our Values: Trust Assuring an environment of accountability and responsibility through visionary leadership, biblical principles, and excellence.Strength Being strong in faith, mind and body; Conquering, enduring, and standing courageous.Integrity Doing what is right at all times.Honor Upholding a good reputation through noble actions, honesty, and fairness.Respect Esteeming the excellence in self and others.Love Showing compassion, kindness, and forgiveness towards others.Loyalty Always being true to faith, family, and community.About: Man Up Adventures is an organization that focuses on ministering to men. Our purpose is to guide men into the fulfillment of authentic Biblical manhood. We do this through experiential learning and adventure in a wilderness setting.Trips (We call them "Adventures") entail 4-day, 4-night excursions into the wild where an emphasis is placed on key Biblical principles that are taught trailside, and reinforced later during fireside small group sessions.During the trip we use adventure (3 days of group hiking), team-building techniques, experiential learning (studies show that most men learn best this way), powerful devotions, and times of heartfelt worship to drive home the principles that are being delivered. We intentionally limit the number of attendees to maximize overall personal impact. We cap the Adventure off with a powerful rite of passage campfire ceremony.Since our initial Adventure in the Spring of 2012, we have had approximately 600 men join us for the Man Up Adventure experience (a whopping 40% return rate), which speaks directly to the necessity and impact of this vital ministry. In 2018 we launched similar trips for women under the banner of Heartwork, a subsidiary ministry of Man Up Adventures. On a Heartwork Adventure you can expect to hear from both seasoned and fresh voices speaking to the core issues of every womans life, taking a whole-body, wholehearted approach to each topic. Filled with meaningful conversations, laughs and tears, intimate moments of worship, the beauty of nature, and mugs of hot coffee and tea around the early morning and late night campfire, Heartwork is intentionally tailored to speak to the core needs and questions of the femine soul.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 57.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.