Rise Outside
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861187081
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- New Paltz, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3134242815
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,300
- Expenses
- $134,894
- Assets
- $32,972
- Liabilities
- $4,102
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marian Perez (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Eric Ratkowski (Director)
- Marian Perez (Executive Director)
- Sydney Krauss (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We offer outdoor education and guided experiences on rock, ice, trail, and anywhere we connect with nature. Hiring us creates mentorship opportunities for our diverse outdoor leaders and funds our programming for groups who have traditionally encountered barriers to realizing their potential outside.
What it reported doing in 2024
At Rise Outside we saw a gap in dedicated mentorship for new and established climbers. That is why we launched a scholarship program in partnership with Rock & Snow -- which provides two climbers with six sessions of one-on-one mentorship. This year the program supported two climbers that came to us through our affinity partnerships -- Adaptive Climb Group and Brown Girls Climb. During their mentorship, the climbers learned skills such as anchor building, lead climbing, Single Pitch Instructor skills and multi-pitch climbing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 69% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 6
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -60%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9% of revenue deployed · 5.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.