Project Ascent
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822938914
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Thompson Falls, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4067991793
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,514
- Expenses
- $61,004
- Assets
- $30,840
- Liabilities
- $572
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- ROB CHRISTENSEN (EXECUTIVE DI)
- KARISSA LOWE (SECRETARY/TR)
- ANITA BROWN (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
Project ascent (pa) empowers youth through accessible outdoor recreation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pa also hosted a community winter carnival event that saw similar participation numbers, providing a dynamic outdoor experience for local youth and families, approximately 200 participants. See schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.