Ralph's Riders Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263365880
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3102043529
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Support N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$417
Expenses
$275
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CARLOS BENAVIDES (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CARLOS BENAVIDES (PRESIDENT)
  • VALERIE TEAGUE (VP)
  • CATIE BUTLER (SECRETARY)

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

Ralph's riders foundation is dedicated to enabling people living with spinal cord injury and paralysis to achieve their highest level of independence, health and personal fulfillment by providing peer guidance, resource information and a supporting network within the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Each rider has a spinal cord injury or mobility impairment and has adjusted to life extremely well despite enormous obstacles, which gives each rider a unique perspective on life as well as an ability to set a great example for individuals in need. Ralph's riders believes that nearly all individuals who have a life changing injury or impairment can benefit from peer guidance. Each rider believes that the network within ralph's riders has a tremendous amount of inspriational advice and resource information that can benefit anyone involved. Our network of resource information includes individuals in the medical, sports, legal and government fields. We also provide gifts of medical equipment and assistive technology, sholarships and other sources of funding to individuals in need to help them achieve their highest level of independence, health and fulfillment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 34.1%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.