Rivers and Roads Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814941475
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2022
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Phone
4054927140
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Boys and Girls Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$153,849
Expenses
$117,655
Assets
$75,238
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Taryn Sutherland (Director and Facilitator)
  • Amber Sawyer (Director and Facilitator)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Rivers and Roads Incorporated provides childhood education opportunities by way of all-day collective, homeschool cooperative, and schooling programs which incorporate nature-based education and self-directed learning within a community where children create their own culture

What it reported doing in 2022

Provided a space for a collective of self-directed learners and nature-based learners by providing agile tools, access to cooperative space, materials, staff, student transportation, and educational opportunities. 32 Learners were benefitted by this program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 44% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 63.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2022
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.