Solid Rock Climbers for Christ

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
770229817
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Bend, OR, USA
Phone
5095409604
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$157,034
Expenses
$138,562
Assets
$66,881
Liabilities
$3,072

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KENNETH LANE (PRESIDENT)
  • JED JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ELIJAH CONLEE (EXEC DIRECTOR)
  • KENNETH LANE (PRESIDENT)
  • JED JOHNSON (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are a community of dedicated christ-following climbers who work to equip and encourage climbers, integrate faith with climbing, and partner with other climbing organizations. Externally we support other national and local climbing non-profits at events and host and/or participate in stewardship projects (typically in partnership with public land managers). Internally, we work to equip christ-followers to effectively support climbing communities and to share the gospel of jesus (i.e. Hope and reconciliation to god and one another).

What it reported doing in 2024

Benevolence: funds raised from chandler mountain challenge (below) were given to partner organizations. Conferences: 2024 annual conference at horseshoe canyon ranch, Arkansas. Sixty-five members attended a four-day conference for climbing, connection, and evening community panel sessions. We fostered regional connections among volunteer leaders and welcomed a new regional volunteer overseer. Events: chandler mountain challenge march 2024: bouldering competition/fundraiser. 100+ competitors who climbed to raise over $5,000 given to local partners at the southeastern climbers coalition and catalyst adaptive sports and to orphan voice's hope therapy center in vietnam.general outreach: 45 members prayed for the climbing community on our annual "climbing day of prayer" day & a small group of six prays weekly. We launched a community member program to better connect and equip our community our 50+ volunteer leaders regularly climb at local gyms & outdoors, building relationships with other climbers & local climbing groups. We partner with the american alpine club, the access fund, southeastern climbers coalition, and dozens of other local climbing organizations around the USA. Training and equipping members: regular email newsletters and an annual bulletin were sent to the ~3,500 members of our e-mailing list. Logo t-shirts, "climb hard, love harder" t-shirts, hats, beanies, devotionals, climbing resource booklets, decals, and business cards were available and ordered by many as outreach tools.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 32
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 31.3%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 35

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 31.3% of revenue deployed · 35.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $49K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.