Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850404817
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ranchos De Taos, NM, United States
- Phone
- (575) 751-1420
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,923,538
- Expenses
- $4,009,751
- Assets
- $3,496,189
- Liabilities
- $1,414,879
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BENJAMIN THOMAS (EXECUTIVE DI): $124,655 total reported compensation
- ROSANNA ARAGON (FINANCE DIRE): $102,953 total reported compensation
- ANDREA PEPIN (DEVELOPMENT): $95,614 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps inspires young adults to make a difference in themselves and their communities by providing training and crew-based team service that helps improve schools and landscapes across northern New Mexico. At Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, we are committed to fostering a respectful, welcoming environment for all. We recognize the value of different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences, and believe that each individual contributes meaningfully to our mission and our collective success. Rocky Mountain Youth Corps provides equal opportunity for service and employment. We do not discriminate against, or deny services to, any individual based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, military service, or pregnancy....
What it reported doing in 2024
Training- the leadership and training center is the internal training provider for rmyc that also offers its powerful training to community partners. The staff of this program offers project specific trainings, workforce development trainings and personal leadership trainings to rmyc's members. In addition, the ropes course is offered to every crew but also made available to community organizations looking to take advantage of the team building, leadership preparation and personal goal-setting opportunities the ropes course has to offer.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -2.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.