Ride Across California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872176237
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8583354874
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,574
- Expenses
- $85,582
- Assets
- $54,604
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OLAV SCHROEDER (President)
- JOE LEVENTHAL (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- OLAV SCHROEDER (President)
- WILLIAM CRANE (Secretary)
- JING LIN (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This corporation is organized to plan and carry out the Ride Across California. A multi-day event involving fifth grade students, and other persons in support of the students, riding bicycles across the southern portion of the State of California.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Ride Across California (RAC) was founded to give fifth graders a right-of-passage experience that would build self-confidence and a "can do" spirit before entering Middle School. The RAC was meant to create a "one for all and all for one" experience without the competitive consequences of a race.Other objectives of the ride are:-To teach every rider that worthwhile accomplishments are a personal matter and not a method of determining who is better, faster, or superior.-To show all participants that each individual must work hard to ensure the success of everyone.-To demonstrate that success for everyone is the measure of a satisfying trip or experience; -To have students and their families experience camping in a tent; and-To teach students that it takes a dedicated set of adults and cooperation from young persons to successfully move so many young people across the state safely.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.