Stanley-sawtooth Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820429384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Stanley, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2087743411
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,038
- Expenses
- $276,349
- Assets
- $40,034
- Liabilities
- $15,391
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH MIERZWINSKI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TRIPP COSTAS (DIRECTOR)
- INGA FRANKS (TREASURER)
- DIANA HURD (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The stanley-sawtooth chamber of commerce was organized: (a) to promote the commercial business, professional and civic interests of stanley and the surrounding community; (b) to encourage and promote tourism throughout the area; (c) to encourage and promote the development and maintenance of recreational facilities and activities throughout the area; (d) to assist in the protection and preservation of our natural resources and wildlife; (e) to cooperate with federal and state agencies in helping to make this a prime area of pleasure and enjoyment for its citizens and seasonal visitors.
What it reported doing in 2024
For the fiscal year ended september 30, 2024, the chamber's membership total was 75 members. Accomplishments: digital advertising with meta- social media recreate responsibly campaign, meta social-media winter campaign, webmarkets seo and website blogs, print advertising in sun valley magazine, time news media, totally boise, Idaho magazine, idahome magazine, stanley summer guide, 2023/2024 discovery maps; billboards in both in sun valley airport; maintained and increased following on social media accounts such as facebook and instagram. Sponsored community organizations and events such as winterfest, Idaho dark sky reserve, the sawtooth society, salmon festival, sawtooth festival and stanley street dances. - exhibitor at the boise snowmobile show and sportsman expo in sandy, Utah. Updated our membership directory and distributed throughout the year along with updating our website as needed. The chamber visitor center was open monday - saturday from may -september and offered limited hours in the off season. Contracted services for grant administration, social media and marketing management, and employed a part-time office manager.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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 - 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: 76
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 83.2%; rating input score 83; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -57.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 96 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.