Trek Adventure Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934809299
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dillon, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9707603074
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,516
- Expenses
- $149,036
- Assets
- $43,607
- Liabilities
- $10,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- ERICA BULL (FOUNDER/PRES)
- LYNDA SCHROER (VICE PRESIDE)
- CINDY MEINDERS (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
Our mission is to enhance the community by empowering youth to unlock their full potential through hands-on learning, nature-based experiences, and character building opportunities that foster personal growth and lifelong skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the organization expanded participation and program offerings across all core areas. Membership increased by approximately 20% compared to the prior year. Trek served 39 children through school break programs and 58 children during its summer program, which operated at approximately 68% capacity. To support equitable access, trek awarded approximately 16,000 in scholarships to participating families. The organization expanded its program offerings to include new specialty programs, such as "on the fly", a fly fishing program focused on skill development and outdoor learning. Trek also developed rocky mountain cotillion, a new program introducing structured social development and etiquette-based learning opportunities for youth in the community. Trek continued to grow its middle school cohort (club 56), offering age- specific programming and events designed to support leadership and social development. With grant funding from the town of silverthorne and the town of dillon, the organization began planning club 56 specific events. Trek maintained and expanded community partnerships to support experiential learning. Activities included collaborative programming with local businesses and organizations, ongoing stewardship of a community garden in dillon (third consecutive year), leadership programming at arapahoe basin ski area, and trail maintenance projects in partnership with friends of the dillon ranger district. The organization's homeschool enrichment program, supported by state funding, increased enrollment from 9 students in 2024 to 17 students in 2025. This program provides supplemental academic and experiential learning opportunities for homeschooled students. In addition to youth programming, trek hosted regular "common grounds" gatherings to support connection and resource-sharing among homeschooling families. To support program delivery and off-site activities, trek purchased a second short bus, increasing transportation capacity. We also increased staffing capacity in 2025, employing two full-time staff members. Trek hosted seven kids night out events during the year, five of which reached full capacity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.