Summit Journeys Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881231317
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Holladay, UT, USA
Phone
8019185920
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Recreation& Sports N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$199,515
Expenses
$345,203
Assets
$50,386
Liabilities
$165,812

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Martin Frey (Executive Dir.)
  • Garth Tino (Board Member)
  • Josie Giles (Board Member)

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

Summit Journeys leads transformational adventure experiences to build character and improve well-being in youth and young adults.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 our Summit Journeys team was very busy leading 102 adventure trips, running 9 sessions of summer camps, and making a positive impact on 1,750 youth, many of which come from disadvantaged backgrounds.We continued to strengthen and expand our partner organizations and added 15 new partner organizations this year including the University of Utah, and Utah Valley University. We built a custom program with Utah Valley University to strengthen the resilience in first year business school students that contributed to lowering the dropout rate.We also expanded our operating footprint and began running some adventure trips and camps with youth in the southern Utah area.This year we also partnered with the State of Utah Office of Outdoor Education to lead a special summer camp program for refugee youth who have been in the USA for less than one year. The program helps them establish new friendships while also having fun learning new skills like kayaking, paddle boarding, and sailing.

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: 12
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; 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: -73%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.29; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $345K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.