Operation Phoenix Outdoors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852557584
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Clovis, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5752180178
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,383
- Expenses
- $138,777
- Assets
- $8,606
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Egbert (CEO/Founder)
People named in this filing
- Chris Egbert (CEO/Founder)
- Amy Egbert (VP)
- Hunter Egbert (Board Member)
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
Operation Phoenix Outdoors honors and supports military members, veterans, first responders, and their families by providing guided outdoor experiences that promote healing, strengthen relationships, and help combat veteran suicide.
What it reported doing in 2025
Purchased private land hunting oppritunities for elk in New Mexico (3 bulls and 6 cow tags and small deer lease)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.7%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 49.3%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.7% of revenue deployed · 49.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.