Tennessee Council (9042) Trout Unlimited

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810702540
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Johnson City, TN, USA
Phone
5703515975
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$118,903
Expenses
$94,975
Assets
$183,329
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RYAN TURGEON (CHAIR)
  • MIKE KESSELRING (VICE CHAIR)
  • VACANT (SECRETARY)

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 Tennessee council (9042) of trout unlimited's primary exempt purpose is to support its member chapters and to conserve, protect, and restore cold-water fisheries and their watersheds in Tennessee consistent with the mission and purpose(s) of trout unlimited, inc.

What it reported doing in 2025

John thurman great smoky mountain trout adventure camp is a council sponsored non-school related program for youth ages 12-15 designed to instill the importance of conserving, protecting, and restoring our aquatic resources. The program, in its tenth year, renamed the john thurman trout adventure camp, after its founding and longtime camp director, john thurman, offers campers an opportunity to study aquatic invertebrates, stream hydrology, cold water ecosystems an d the fundamentals of fly fishing and fly tying. The program is based at the great smoky mountain institute at tremont. Additional information is located at tntroutadventure.org.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.