We Ride Together Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873405212
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Woodside, CA, USA
Phone
6505041419
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Sexual Abuse, Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,958,661
Expenses
$1,629,757
Assets
$610,256
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michaela Callie (Executive director)
  • Carrie Kehring (president)

Highest reported compensation

  • Michaela Callie (Executive director): $240,830 total reported compensation
  • Kathryn McClain (director): $209,292 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to make the youth and amateur sport environment safer for all athletes. To shine a light on the endemic issue of sexual abuse in youth sports, starting with equestrian sport and then broadening to every sport.

What it reported doing in 2025

WeRideTogether created awareness videos and content for publication across websites, social media, and for play at competitive events. Our educational PSAs, videos, and resources have been instrumental when working with various stakeholder groups, ranging from fourth graders to adult amateur athletes to national and international governing bodies of sport. Our team uses this foundational content to build individualized educational modules for specific sports and organizations. This year, we created a new PSA series called "Out of Bounds". The Out of Bounds series consists of four short-form PSAs, each of which explores facets of the victim experience, inside and outside the world of sports, and provides insight, language, and metaphor into "what it's like" to be a victim of sexual abuse or misconduct. The PSAs allow the audience to walk in the victim's shoes as they navigate the survivor's journey interpersonally and within society. #WeRideTogether has also hosted four longer-form discussions with survivors and subject-matter experts to expand the conversation on the topics and nuances featured in the PSAs. Supporting information and resources for survivors, athletes, parents, coaches, organizations, supporters, and society at large are also provided. The award-winning series received over 46 million views across various platforms. These videos will be used at events, competitions, and conferences, as well as in educational content. Additionally, two videos from our "Preventing Misconduct in Sports" series were adapted to support Sports Integrity Australia's (SIA) initiatives - an Australian government agency established to draw together existing sport integrity capabilities, knowledge, and expertise. The new resources, launched by SIA and #WeRideTogether, include information on identifying healthy and unhealthy relationships between coaches and athletes and encourage bystanders to respond to any poor behaviour they observe. Our team also created an updated educational module for US Rowing (the rowing National Governing Body in the United States), which incorporated several of our educational PSAs. The governing body serves over 75,000 athletes, coaches, and rowing community members across 1,400+ affiliated clubs and organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $465.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 55.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 44.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 47.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 5 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $105K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.