Redding Trail Alliance
Legal name: Redding Trail Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813446675
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Redding, CA, USA
- Phone
- 530-515-0908
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $315,601
- Expenses
- $277,996
- Assets
- $282,958
- Liabilities
- $9,791
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TONY LEWIS (PRESIDENT)
- NATHAN KNUDSEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JOHN WALDROP (DIRECTOR)
- JENEE KITE (DIRECTOR)
- PAUL LEHMAN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
"To create high quality trail experiences by advocating for, building, and maintaining trails which are progressive, diverse, and promote community" Redding Trail Alliance was formed in 2016 because as individuals we each saw the potential Redding has to become a world class place to ride your mountain bike. While this desire is still our main motivating force, we have expanded and evolved to accept responsibility for creating and maintaining quality trails for all user groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
Redding trail alliance continuted to expand its organizational capacity and community impact through trail stewardship, recreation development, volunteer engagement and regional partnerships. To help sustain and grow core programs (including trail maintenance, trail planning, trail construction, events, partnerships and the adopt-a-trail volunteer program) the organization launched a new membership program that allows community members to financially support and stay connected to rta through membership opportunities and community meetings. Rta continued to address significant trail maintenance needs throughout the region despite limited land manager capacity, leveraging strong volunteer support to keep trails safe, accessible and sustainable. In partnership with the blm, rta also helped train 8 new vouuteer sawyers to support ongoing stewardship efforts. Two new trails were completed, designed to improve recreation access and user experience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $226K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.