Ride Nature
Legal name: Ride Nature Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272763553
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2014
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Fort Myers, FL, US
- Phone
- 2392205857
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,974
- Expenses
- $174,223
- Assets
- $24,262
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARK KOCH JR (FOUNDER/ DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTIAN BELL (ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR)
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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ride Nature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit mission organization dedicated to giving generously, proclaiming the Gospel, and making disciples through action sports outreach, evangelism, and discipleship.
What it reported doing in 2014
Local outreach- events; surf expo, skateboarding day, developed on evangelism film "purpose to be shown at outreach events the film shares christian testimonies of 34 professional board athletes
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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 revenue 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 52.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2012 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.