Wild Warrior Adventure Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852519851
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
8055360681
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$165,987
Expenses
$134,802
Assets
$123,165
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jonathan Benton (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Jonathan Benton (Executive Director)
  • Travis Cox (Chairman)
  • Daniel Housinger (Treasurer)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wild Warrior Adventure works to prevents suicide, minimize PTSD among veterans and optimize veterans wellness through outdoor retreats and activities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Since inception in 2017, Wild Warrior Adventure has served over 330 veterans and service members through adventure-based retreats in confidential environments. WWA has conducted over 40 retreats serving Warriors to improve camaraderie, coping mechanisms, and reducing the effects of combat trauma and moral injury. The effects of the program include increased quality of life, better skills to manage symptoms of trauma, a renewed hope, and new purpose and mission. Alumni have reported significant increase in quality of relationships, stronger support structures, and a more clearly defined purpose resulting in overall improvement in quality of life.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 18.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.