Recreation Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 460812011
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2023–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Phone: 0000000000
Rating: 42
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Physical Fitness and Community Recreational Facilities

Reported finances

Revenue: $83,552
Expenses: $96,817
Assets: $21,757
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

Seth Kent (Board Chair)
Kimbal Kurtz (Board Treasurer)
Hannah McCandless (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

The Organizations mission is to prepare young people to thrive through outdoor adventure and transformative play

What it reported doing in 2025

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 31
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: -15.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.