World Trails Network - Hub for the Americas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822998581
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Campton, NH, USA
- Phone
- 2074205829
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parks and Playgrounds
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,892
- Expenses
- $178,180
- Assets
- $38,363
- Liabilities
- $23,694
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mike Passo (Vice Chair)
- Nathaniel Scrimshaw (Chair)
- Lisa Doner (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
The World Trails Network - Hub for the Americas (WTN Americas) promotes a connected trail network across the Americas to support healthy communities, environmental stewardship, and cross-cultural collaboration. The organization sponsors trail work, training, fellowships, and related programs that build the capacity of trail organizations and partners throughout the region.
What it reported doing in 2025
The CEPF-funded Ecuador project strengthened biodiversity conservation and sustainable local economies through the development of long-distance trails, ecotourism initiatives, and community-based governance in Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in Ecuador. The project advanced an integrated approach combining technical planning, institutional coordination, local capacity building, and field implementation to support ecological connectivity and sustainable public-use models. In 2025, the project delivered virtual and in-person trainings for communities, local organizations, guides, and institutional partners, helping build long-term local capacity in trail management and ecotourism development. Accomplishments included development of technical assessments, investment plans, trail management and safety guidelines, and standardized methodological tools to support conservation-focused implementation adapted to local conditions. The project also strengthened governance through formal agreements and institutional endorsement letters supporting the future development of a National System of Trails and Connectivity in Ecuador. Additional activities included strategic communications, support for sustainable tourism opportunities linked to territorial identity and conservation, and implementation of monitoring, transparency, and grievance mechanisms to support adaptive management and accountability. Despite delays associated with restructuring processes within Ecuadorian government agencies, the project remained on schedule through adaptive management and continued coordination with institutional and community partners. This project extends into 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
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: -1.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -30.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -48.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $173K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 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
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.