Save Ak Spots

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862606140
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Anchorage, AK, USA
Phone
9079524799
Rating
34
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,040
Expenses
$0
Assets
$4,943
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Katheryn Cochrane (President, treasurer, director)
  • Lauryn Mavaega (Vice President, secretary, director)

People named in this filing

  • Katheryn Cochrane (President, treasurer, director)
  • Lauryn Mavaega (Vice President, secretary, director)
  • David Cochrane (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Save AK Spots, SAS is a 501(C)3 nonprofit that creates community cleanup opportunities and stewardship content that encourages Alaskans to improve Alaska's environmental health as stewards of the Last Frontier.

What it reported doing in 2025

Save AK Spots, SAS is a 501(C)3 nonprofit that creates community cleanup opportunities and stewardship content that encourages Alaskans to improve the Great Land's environmental health as stewards of the Last Frontier. SAS has organized trash cleanups throughout different areas across the Last Frontier, improving the lands and waters that provide so much to so many Alaskan residents. Our mission is to stop litter from happening in Alaska is the reason why we started Save AK Spots, and with the help of AK Way stewards, doing the right thing for the Last Frontier's environmental health, we will keep it the Great Land for generations to come.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.