Rim to Rim Restoration
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331021022
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Moab, UT, USA
- Phone
- 4352200003
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $780,112
- Expenses
- $708,511
- Assets
- $376,370
- Liabilities
- $9,965
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kara Dohrenwend (Director): $93,246 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rim to Rim Restoration is committed to nurturing healthy ecosystems and watersheds across southeastern Utah. Our mission is to foster motivation for ecological responsibility in southeastern Utah and reestablish native vegetation for the benefit of wildlife people and sustainable watersheds. We accomplish our mission by collecting native plant seed propagating native plants regenerating damaged and altered landscapes and coordinating among stakeholders and the community to accomplish collaborative restoration projects.
What it reported doing in 2025
Seed Collection and Increase: Since 2009 Rim to Rim has worked to increase the availability of native seed and containerized plants at our Mayberry Native Plant Propagation Center on the Colorado River. Over the last four years work at Mayberry has shifted from weed control and infrastructure installation to expanding seed increase fields and brainstorming innovative methods for dispersing seed across remote parts of the region. In FY 2025 seed collection work expanded with the National Park Service as well as with the Bureau of Land Management. For the BLM Rim to Rim performed 15 standard Seeds of Success collections and two operational collections and recorded over 40 scouting points. In addition we installed seed increase plots for eight new species that will be viable for collection in 2025. For the NPS Rim to Rim produced containerized plants for use in revegetation projects and also added seed increase plots at Mayberry. Larger seed collections of workhorse species also occurred in 2025 and will continue in 2025 if drought conditions do not persist. Funding for this work is provided on a federal fiscal year so expenses and revenue do not always match.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 62.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $646K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.