TigerMountain Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270806147
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6026877725
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $470,825
- Expenses
- $551,948
- Assets
- $97,023
- Liabilities
- $142,024
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darren Chapman (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Nicholas Kelly (Chair Board of Directors)
- Ben Van Maren (Secretary Board of Directors)
- Michael Shelton (Treasuer Bd. of Directors)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TigerMountain Foundation works with adults and youth who have reentered society and/or are from at-risk communities on Life Skills and Workforce Development via community gardens and edible landscaping.
What it reported doing in 2025
TigerMountain Foundation works with adults and youth who have reentered society and/or are from at-risk communities. Our goal is to intercept them before they become involved with the justice system, but there are times we work with individuals on probation that are turning their lives around (presently we are working with 25 such individuals). These participants engage in our Life Skills and Workforce development initiatives working in community gardens, our kitchen and with landscaping. Our Personal Strategy Roadmap requirements assists with the participants setting personal and community goals to transform their lives and become involved community members. Some of our youth participants may have been involved in petty crimes or are just directionless and theyve been referred to us for mentoring, life and work skills. We do not take on any participants with a conviction for child or elder abuse. Most of the previously incarcerated individuals were for drug or gang related crimes, but they are now free from addiction and gang activity. TMF has an 85% success rate of previously incarcerated participants not returning to jail.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.7%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.46; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.7% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $455K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.