Protectors Peak Retreat Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831486393
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2020
Location
Nowthen, MN, USA
Phone
8175017325
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Support Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$164,378
Expenses
$160,655
Assets
$245,091
Liabilities
$7,926

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • NATHAN HARDER (DIRECTOR)
  • BECKY HARDER (ASSOCIATE DI)
  • JOHN STANGER (BOARD CHAIR)

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

Hold retreats for law enforcement & wives, forefighters, emts, and chaplins to recharge.

What it reported doing in 2025

Protectors peak retreat center holds retreats for law enforcement & wives, firefighters, emts, and chaplins to recharge.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 36
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.6%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 36

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: 2.3%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 66.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.6% of revenue deployed · 36.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 36/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.