Short Creek Outdoors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853966421
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Colorado City, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 8018244232
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,229
- Expenses
- $148,539
- Assets
- $11,580
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAYMOND HAMMON (President)
- LAWRENCE STUBBS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- RAYMOND HAMMON (President)
- LAWRENCE STUBBS (Vice President)
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
To operate a charitable organization as recognized under section 501C3 of the internal revenue code and A.R.S code section 42-111. To promote arts and sciences including musical, dramatic, dance, including art groups, botanical gardens, museums and zoos. To hold properties and events to serve a population that includes persons who are indigent or afflicted and engage in delivering services consisting of fitness programs, camping programs, heath and recreation services, youth programs, child care, senior citizen programs, individual and family counseling, employment and training programs , services for individuals with disabilities, meals, feeding programs or disaster relief. To hold and transfer property designated as parkland and/or recapture, and to hold and develop property for public parks, trails and open spaces to preserve or protect scientific, biological, geological, paleontological, natural or archaeological resources. To sponsor, own, or manage skeet and trap shooting ranges
What it reported doing in 2025
To operate a charitable organization as recognized under section 501C3 of the internal revenue code and A.R.S code section 42-111. To promote arts and sciences including musical, dramatic, dance, including art groups, botanical gardens, museums and zoos. To hold properties and events to serve a population that includes persons who are indigent or afflicted and engage in delivering services consisting of fitness programs, camping programs, heath and recreation services, youth programs, child care, senior citizen programs, individual and family counseling, employment and training programs , services for individuals with disabilities, meals, feeding programs or disaster relief. To hold and transfer property designated as parkland and/or recapture, and to hold and develop property for public parks, trails and open spaces to preserve or protect scientific, biological, geological, paleontological, natural or archaeological resources. To sponsor, own, or manage skeet and trap shooting ranges for public access. To enter into inter-local agreements with municipalities and municipal corporations and other non-profit or for profit organizations to promote community resources and services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 55.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $149K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.