Rocky Mountain Gas Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870477538
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8015218340
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $357,646
- Expenses
- $350,690
- Assets
- $688,480
- Liabilities
- $13,472
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT CARPENTER (PRESIDENT)
- JAMIE SCHUMACHER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- JOHN HILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN HILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $75,000 total reported compensation
- AMY MADDUX (EDUCATION COORDINATOR): $14,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Foster the advancement of the heating, venting, refrigeration, air conditioning and hearth, hydronic heating, plumbing & public utility related industries, and to provide a clearing house for information of value to promote high standards of practice. Effective communications with the Association members in an effort to keep them informed on important changes in the industry, and encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in business and professions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Allocated funds designated for individual scholarships, certification and testing to promote theory and practice of good principles of contracting and to protect the public against inferior work and materials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.