Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

What it reported doing in 2025

Rmyc is unique in the world of service and conservation corps in that we are the only corps in the state of Colorado that engages corps members for extended (2 weeks +) 24/7 experiential work and living opportunities. Youth and young adults work on meaningful community service projects that protect habitats while maintaining outdoor recreational amenities that coloradans enjoy. We provide unique project services and training around higher-level hard skills, such as chainsaw certification, wildland fire fighting certification, high altitude sites (Colorado fourteeners), intricate rock work, historic preservation, and wilderness specialty work, such as cross-cut saw use. We provide an affordable workforce for public lands managers to complete priority projects within recreation, wildland fuels, habitat, and historic preservation sectors. Youth corps programs: service learning crew (slc) is a youth community service program that provides education and experience in community service, and self-development to routt and moffat county youth ages 11-13. Slc sessions are two weeks in length, monday - friday, with a two-night camping experience at the end of each session. Slc provides entry-level job skills while enhancing their resiliency and personal development through experiential education and meaningful service projects. Slc was created in 2010.youth conservation corps (ycc) serves youth ages 14-18 throughout Colorado. Members live and work together during the entire session. Participants can choose between a two-week or a four-week opportunity. The residential nature of this program allows participants to be fully immersed in all aspects of work and camp life. Like the slc program, members work for public land managers on priority service projects throughout nw Colorado. Ycc members earn a weekly stipend during their time in the program. Ycc was our first program, starting in 1993.young adult corps programs: conservation corps (cc) serves young adults ages 18-25 throughout the united states. Cc crews serve on conservation projects throughout nw Colorado and Wyoming. Members earn a weekly stipend and an americorps education award. Cc crews address priority conservation goals in partnership with the united states forest service, the bureau of land management, the national park service, the national forest foundation, and a growing circle of municiple and non-profit partners. While completing priority projects on public lands, participants live in groups of 8-10 for 10 to 22 weeks. These crews work on building and maintaining trails, bridges, and fences, reduce wildland fuels, rehabilitate wildfire burn scars, restore ripirian habitat, create access to wilderness areas, and much more. Cc was created in 1999.natural resource internship program (nri) is designed to engage youth and young adults ages 16-30 years in valuable work experiences within natural resources management agencies and non-profits. Interns are recruited and managed by rmyc to address priority conservation goals in partnership with the united states forest service, the bureau of land management, the national park service, the Colorado youth corps association, the national forest foundation, and a growing circle of additional agency and non-profit partners. Internships are designed to allow participants to advance careers in natural resources. Rmyc provides support to all internships while the intern works under the daily supervision of the hosting public lands management agency or non-profit. Interns earn a weekly stipend and an americorps education award. Nrip was created in 2015.other youth programs: yampa valley science school was developed in 2000 and serves all routt and moffat county sixth graders (approximately 400) each year. Students are immersed in this four-day, one-overnight experiential, place-based environmental science curriculum. The curriculum aligns with co dept. Of education content standards in science. The lesson activities take place throughout

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
• Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 84
• Fundraising efficiency: $27.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings