Ozarks Keystone Trail Endowment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331175617
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Gamaliel, AR, USA
- Phone
- 8704259390
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,422
- Expenses
- $24,418
- Assets
- $78,857
- Liabilities
- $27,592
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- KENT JACKSON RHOADES (EXECUTIVE DI)
- KYRIE STEWART (BOARD MEMBER)
- STEPH RHOADES (EXECUTIVE DI)
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
To encourage an active outdoor lifestyle while supporting student and community strengths, well-being, and the health & economic-wealth benefits of outdoor recreation.
What it reported doing in 2025
The ozarks keystone trail endowment (okte) helps the ozark keystone trail (okt) and is focused on partnerships with trail-side schools and communities to increase well-being (career, financial, social, physical, and community). The okte uses clifton strengths to promote self-awareness, healthy lifestyles, and educational opportunities for students and trail- side communities. The okt is located on public lands managed by the u.s. Army corps of engineers in mountain home, Arkansas. It runs from the lake norfork dam in Arkansas to dawt mill in Missouri. The okt, which connects the ozark trail & the ozark highlands trail to complete the trans ozark trail, aspires to provide a national scenic trail experience in and around the ozarks, the oldest and most significant area of rugged topography between the appalachians and the rockies. The okt includes a special section, david's trail, honoring the community contributions of david floyd, a local community leader, and outdoor enthusiast. David's trail runs from robinson point to red bank. The okt is a 101-mile, shoreline-to-forest, natural surface trail. It is a multi-use, low maintenance, aesthetically pleasing trail that rolls and meanders to prevent erosion. The okt presents a variety of outdoor opportunities such as walking, hiking, pet exercise, running, biking, bird-, wildlife-, and wildflower-observation, camping, hunting, and fishing. It offers learning experiences that can be enjoyed while outside in the forest near the water.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -189.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.23; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 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: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.