Pittsburgh Trails Advocacy Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272845958
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wexford, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4125087732
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,431
- Expenses
- $79,005
- Assets
- $92,201
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE CARROLL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MIKE CARROLL (PRESIDENT)
- MARY LYNN MARISCO RN BSN (VICE PRESIDE)
- JAMIE PFAEFFLE (TREASURER)
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
Pittsburgh trails advocacy group is a volunteer group dedicated to designing, building and maintaining narrow dirt trails in city, county, state and other parks in western Pennsylvania. We work with landowners to address their concerns about the trails, and using volunteers, conduct trail work so that the trails have a miminal impact on the environment. Our trails are designed in accordance with the trail guidelines put forth by the international mountain biking association. We advocate for well-designed trails that are open to many different user groups, including but not limited to mountain bikers, hikers, dog walkers and runners. We work for better relations between trail user groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide services in the form of volunteer work to maintain and build trails for city, county and state parks. On occasion and with permission of the landowner, we provide material for building small wooden structures such as footbridges, kiosks and signs for the trails.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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 45/100.