Trek Relief
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815114205
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Alhambra, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6264764385
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,982
- Expenses
- $122,230
- Assets
- $94,436
- Liabilities
- $7,652
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE YOUNG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHI NGUYEN (PRESIDENT)
- ROB WILLIAMS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CANDICE YOUNG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHI NGUYEN (PRESIDENT)
- ROB WILLIAMS (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
We inspire adventure travelers into leadership by co-creating mutually beneficial service projects with global communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Patagonia transformative environmental education & regenerative school gardens description: fundacin renoval strengthens natural knowledge and humannature relationships through transformative, outdoor-based environmental education in patagonia. The organization collaborates closely with local communities to design, build, and operate productive gardens and regenerative landscapes at rural schools, integrating infrastructure, curriculum, and traditional ecological knowledge to support long-term community resilience.accomplishments (2025): fundacin renoval completed huerta verde esperanza, a community-centered educational garden at a rural school in villa cerro castillo. The program includes construction of productive garden infrastructure, implementation of an environmental education curriculum, and engagement of students, teachers, and community members through hands-on learning, workshops, and stewardship activities.the organization finalized a master plan for a network of school gardens, establishing a scalable and replicable model for interconnected outdoor learning spaces across patagonia. This plan will support future expansion to additional communities, including puerto ibez, in coordination with public education authorities (slep), ngos, and private funders.in parallel, fundacin renoval invested in organizational capacity by launching its visual brand, onboarding a full-time executive director, and forming a locally based team with fair, living wages to ensure program sustainability, educational quality, and long-term impact.people served: rural students and teachers in patagonia, local community members, and partner institutions participating in outdoor environmental education, regenerative gardening, and traditional ecological knowledge programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
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: 15.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.