Selah Mountain Ranch

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831223800
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Florence, CO, USA
Phone
7143945453
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$156,045
Expenses
$165,517
Assets
$63,656
Liabilities
$55,970

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dale Nuss (President)
  • Kimberly Nuss (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Brandon Brown (Director): $47,911 total reported compensation
  • Jack Nuss (Director): $2,146 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide life services for foster children and families, including aged-out young adults, elderly and other needy. This includes meals, clothes, children's toys and gifts, subsidized housing, light home construction and repair services, life skills and on-the-job training for needy adolescents and young adults.

What it reported doing in 2024

Push-Start provides light construction and repair services, including remodeling, repair, new light construction and handyman services. These are provided at full price for most clients, and discounted or free for needy clients. This activity also covers the cost of taking on disadvantaged young adults and providing life-skill training and on-the-job work experience and training. Among our community impact projects, we helped a widow whose deck was falling over by building her a new one. Helped a 19 year old single mom get reliable transportation. Put in new fl ooring for another single mom and more. We heavily invested in the discipleship and mental health of Lauren who came to Christ this year! I think that was the most beautiful part of my suffering. As Lauren watched me suffer and keep faith, she came to faith herself and has held that faith despite her many physical and mental health struggles. As always, we conclude this year with our commitment to fi scal transparency. We received $31,524.02 in donations this year. We invested $32,853.29 into the community. This was only accomplished through God? s grace. With how diffi cult this year was it is truly an act of God that we met our goal for every dollar that came in to go back out. It shows just how faithful He is with whatever talents you put to His use.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 68% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
  • 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $118K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.