Siskiyou Mountain Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273418419
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Ashland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 4582540657
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,157,620
- Expenses
- $1,107,720
- Assets
- $1,855,823
- Liabilities
- $6,335
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVE BRENNAN (President)
Highest reported compensation
- GABE HOWE (Executive Dir.): $84,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The siskiyou mountain club formed to restore, maintain and promote primitive trails in the siskiyou backcountry and to provide outdoor service opportunities for the public. We coordinate stewardship projects, lead outdoor adventures and publish useful information for the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our Wilderness Corps does the hard work it takes to keep our region's trails alive. Crews of college interns and leadership staff dispatch to remote work sites across the national forests of southwest Oregon and northwest California. Crews perform critical maintenance on popular destinations like the Rogue River National Recreation Trail and the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. They also dispatch into the most remote depths of these areas to restore and maintain lesser-known trails like the Upper Chetco and Illinois River trails, as well as the trail networks crossing the Red Buttes, Wild Rogue, Sky Lakes, Kalmiopsis, Siskiyou, and Marble Mountain federal wilderness areas.In 2024, Siskiyou Mountain Club trail crews maintained 145 miles of trails and restored 21 miles of trails across the national forests of southwest Oregon and northwest California. We coordinated over 15,000 staff and intern stewardship hours through our Wilderness Conservation Corps work program. We enlisted 18 interns who gained exposure to public lands careers and developed marketable job skills in technical forestry, recreation, and leadership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $993K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.