Middle Mountain Interpretative Hikes

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320454378
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Yuba City, CA, USA
Phone
5306325217
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,153
Expenses
$55,124
Assets
$103,768
Liabilities
$3,869

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Greg Payne (President/Director)
  • Dan Russell (Vice President/Director)

People named in this filing

  • Greg Payne (President/Director)
  • Dan Russell (Vice President/Director)
  • Theresa Dwinger (Treasurer/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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization provides educational interpretive hikes to local 2nd thru 5th grade students. 24 classes of students were taken into the Sutter Buttes to learn about the origins of the mountains and the wildlife that live or have lived in the buttes. 8 of these classes received partial or complete financial assistance to be able to bring the students in. In excess of 600 students and their chaperons took part in these classroom field trips. in addition, over 900 hikers were provided access to the Sutter Buttes as part of our charter hikes, open hikes, or Sunset Serenade event. The Sutter Buttes are 95% privately owned. Our group works with the landowners to provide access to the public.

What it reported doing in 2025

Interpretive hikes provided to local socioeconomic students in surrounding areas. In addition, MMIH works with land owners to provide open and charter hikes to general public. The Sutter Buttes are 95% privately owned and this allows general public acess to the mountain range.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.