Summit Outdoor Stations
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261390036
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7609654272
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,782
- Expenses
- $88,711
- Assets
- $2,235
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Victoria McCoy (Secretary)
- Rachel Bowman (Chairperson)
- Peter Bowman (Vice Chair)
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
The mission of The Station is to Raise Foundations, Release Dreams. The Station will provide essential resources for the young generation that will set each person up for success in life and in their future goals. Through mentorship, young men and women will be activated with healthy equipping tools, to use as they venture into leadership roles, in non-profit organizations, ministries, businesses, families, and more.
What it reported doing in 2025
Summit outdoor stations, 'the station' focuses on using challenging and funexperiences that provide opportunities for people to overcome the 'i could never'mentality. The station utilizes adventure programming principles and methods toput individuals in constructive experiences that promote cooperation, encouragement, excitement and most of all, success in the outdoors. Overcomingfear and experiencing the exhilaration of success, using outdoor activities, hasmany parallels with everyday life and will equip them with tools to accomplish theimpossible in their lives. The station offers a variety of outdoor activities, including individual sports and organized groups.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.