Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841302819
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2009, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Carbondale, CO, USA
Phone
9709278241
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,238,113
Expenses
$1,061,603
Assets
$910,297
Liabilities
$156,383

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rebecca Schild (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Rebecca Schild (Executive Director): $116,125 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To Promote Stewardship of our public lands by engaging the community in education, conservation and restoration projects.

What it reported doing in 2025

Natural Resource Stewardship and Protection, General: RFOV conducted 224 project days in 2025 with 1,996 individual volunteers. In total, RFOV dedicated 14,919 hours to the stewardship of our regional public lands including 8,306 volunteer hours. RFOV has three programs to engage volunteers: 1) Public Projects - We work with land management agencies and other project partners to develop and conduct volunteer projects with long-lasting results. Our projects are one to four days in duration and typically involve 25 to 75 volunteers each; 2) Group Work Days/Adopt-A-Trail - We assist small groups and individuals with volunteering to care for trails and public lands either as an organization's service component (Group Work Days) or to provide ongoing maintenance on an adopted area; 3) Young Stewards Program (YSP) - We motivate youth by providing first-hand knowledge of the significant role they play in caring for our public lands. We provide an outdoor service experience grounded in the greater context of stewardship and conservation principles. YSP engaged with 1,499 students in 2025 on outdoor service projects or winter classroom programs. The service projects are very similar to our adult programs; but the work is tailored to the different age groups' physical abilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.2%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.2% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $878K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.