2025-05-14T22:43:27-07:00 2024-12-31 823726482 Rising Sun Accounting PO Box 25726 Seattle WA 98165 990 2024-01-01 911553023 Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance EVER 2065242900 249 Main Ave S STE 107-188 North Bend WA 98045 Eddie Espinosa Executive Director 2065242900 2025-05-14 1 1 Samuel Dahlin P01888405 2069395442 2025-05-14 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Tony Hikock 249 Maine Ave S STE 107-188 North Bend WA 98045 3221709 0 X www.evergreenmtb.org X 1989 WA The Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance advocates for, creates, and protects access to sustainable mountain biking in Washington State. We accomplish this through five primary organizational functions: Advocacy, Trail Maintenance and Construction, Education, and Community Engagement and Support. Our vision of making Washington one of the best places to ride a mountain bike relies on volunteer recruitment and organizing, utilizing thousands of volunteer hours to serve Washington's riders. 17 15 100 4100 970 0 2562029 2598953 802892 527136 8059 69810 -4981 -1087 3367999 3194812 68048 51263 0 0 2091647 2186171 0 0 85992 1044043 943712 3203738 3181146 164261 13666 2451239 2473565 167056 179774 2284183 2293791 Evergreen's mission is to create, maintain, and protect sustainable mountain biking opportunities in Washington State. 0 0 1440541 29969 184445 TRAIL MAINTENANCE, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance is celebrating a successful 2024, marking the year with the opening of two new trail systems and dozens of new trails across Washington State. From flow to technical descents, MTB-only to multi-use, these new trails reflect Evergreen's mission to deliver dynamic, accessible, and rewarding mountain biking experiences for all riders. NEW TRAIL SYSTEMS: The Trek at Tehaleh in Bonney Lake and Tennant Trailhead Park in North Bend were Evergreen's flagship projects for 2024, introducing two entirely new trail systems that reflect local partnerships and the diverse needs of Washington's mountain biking community. The Trek at Tehaleh project began in 2018 and opened in the spring of 2024, offering a network of trails in the underserved South Sound area. Tennant Trailhead Park began in 2017 and opened in the spring of 2024, offering a family-friendly local trail system just 1 mile from downtown North Bend. In partnership with the Snoqualmie Tribe, all trails at Tennant Trailhead Park are named in Lushootseed, honoring the land's cultural heritage, local geography, and wildlife, while providing an educational opportunity for trail users. Evergreen has also been developing new trail segments in existing trail systems. At Loup Loup Ski Bowl in the Methow Valley, riders can now explore "Ursus," a technical descent with scenic rock features, and "Oso Peligroso," a long blue trail that combines thrilling rock sections with beautiful views. In Spokane, the "Lower Mica Peak Trail" was completed to offer a more manageable climb at Liberty Lake, providing an enjoyable ascent and rewarding summit views. At Snoqualmie Pass, in partnership with The Summit at Snoqualmie, Evergreen finished "Bouncy House," a new blue flow trail with big rollers and berms, and "My Little Friend," a technical blue-black trail, blending machine-built flow with natural, rugged terrain for both intermediate and advanced riders. In addition to new trails, Evergreen rebuilt and refreshed existing routes at popular locations like Duthie Hill in Issaquah. The newly designed "Great Space Coaster" now offers a progressive intermediate tabletop jump line. Duthie Hill's historic "GHY" trail was also fully redesigned and rebuilt by an all-women crew, making this a more progressive double-black jump line with new machine-built features. 360763 21294 342691 EDUCATION: 2024 was another successful year for Evergreen; Evergreen Education provided skills courses to 632 adults (357 women / 260 men) and 589 kids through a combination of adult clinics and workshops, and youth lessons and summer camps. Additionally, 196 participants were engaged through community and school partnership programs. This year, Evergreen's education program updated the instructor certification process to enhance the quality of our classes, piloted new programming, and welcomed over 40 new instructors around the state. On-trail classes were piloted at Raging River and Tiger Mountain to support clinic alumni who were ready to start exploring more advanced terrain but preferred the guidance of an Evergreen-certified instructor and the joy of a group setting. These were well-received, and there are plans to offer more in 2025. Instructor scholarships were distributed to 8 instructors around the state who have dedicated hundreds of hours to the education program and wanted to expand their coaching skills. Instructors used their funds to get certified in Wilderness First Aid or PMBIA (Professional Mountain Bike Instructor Association). Recognizing that our classes and workshops are often the first experience new riders have with the sport, we offered focused training to our instructors to develop their skills and awareness to teach with a philosophy of service, highlighting the differences in learning and communication styles among the different cultures found in our communities. Evergreen's education program is powered by close to 100 volunteer instructors, who donated over 1,600 teaching hours in 2024 to introduce about 600 primarily new riders to mountain biking and all the joy that being outside can bring. Our popular "Dirt Camp" program, taught by about 40 paid coaches over the summer, took close to 600 kids onto the trails, serving beginners through advanced riders in skill development, fun games, and even a bit of trail maintenance. Those campers contributed 400 hours of work to our trails this summer. 468968 0 0 COMMUNITY BUILDING & ADVOCACY: Our events build community and nurture future mountain bike leaders, teachers, volunteers, and trail stewards. We promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion through adaptive mountain biking events and women and non-binary work parties. We fostered environmental responsibility, sustainable practices, volunteerism, and healthy lifestyles within our community. Evergreen hosted 14 core community events across Washington State in 2024. 240 group rides were offered throughout the state, with 984 registered group ride participants. Of these, 61 were Crank Sisters women's rides, bringing together a total of 353 female participants. The 2024 Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival had 687 registered attendees and an estimated 1,500 visitors over the festival weekend. Spring Fling returned in March bringing 100+ volunteers to Raging River for trail maintenance and community building. Duthie Jam brought over 200 visitors to the Duthie Hill bike park in May, including pro rider Matt Jones from Australia. Shovel & Shred, presented by Red Bull, brought over 70 women and nonbinary riders to Darrington in May for trail maintenance and rides on North Mountain. And an estimated 1,000 people attended Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day in October across 3 Chapters (Cascades To Sound, Central, and East Chapter). EVERGREEN MEMBERS: The 2024 Virtual Member Meeting had 121 registered participants via Zoom, with presentations from 6 Evergreen Staff members and 8 Chapter Board Members. Evergreen Membership peaked in January with 8,534 members. The annual Membership Drive in September brought in 260 new Memberships and 1,938 renewed Memberships from those previously expired (or set to expire soon), resulting in a 127% retention rate (1,521 were set to expire that month). ADVOCATING FOR TRAILS: Our advocacy focused on raising awareness and engaging our supporters in public lands access protection, addressing recreational access challenges and opportunities, and ensuring that mountain bikers have a strong voice in recreational trail planning and development initiatives. Our activities were diverse and statewide, ranging from participating in the Parks and Great Outdoors Legislative Day to advocating for the EXPLORE Act, which passed in December 2024, and partnering with the Outdoor Alliance to communicate advocacy alerts to our followers. We engage our members in advocacy through topic-specific meetings, e-newsletters, social media, in-person interactions at trailheads, and electronic advocacy alerts designed to encourage member participation and comments. 44999 0 0 VOLUNTEER TRAIL MAINTENANCE. Evergreen recruits and organizes volunteers to maintain and steward trails on public lands through contracts and agreements with land managers. These trails provide all users the opportunity to access Washington's beautiful places on well-maintained trails. In 2024, we coordinated 665 volunteer work parties, engaging close to 4,000 volunteers who contributed 19,596 hours of trail work on 400 miles of trail. This represents $790,000 in contributed labor to our public trail systems. As part of our commitment to public land and trails, we continue to train and refresh the skills of our sawyer teams. These specialized teams work ahead of our trail crews to clear fallen trees and help bring down trees that pose hazards to our trail systems. Trail maintenance took place at trailheads, sites, and trails within federally managed land, state and county forests and parks, community forests, conservation areas, as well as municipal parks and open spaces. Trail systems included: East Tiger Mountain, Raging River, and Yacolt Burn State Forests, Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park, Black Diamond Open Space, Squilchuck State Park, Mt. Spokane State Park, Olallie State Park, and Moran State Parks. Community parks included: Beacon Hill, Swan Creek, Iller Creek, Micah Peak, Camp Sekani, and Port Gamble community parks. Trail networks in the Okanogan-Wenatchee, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie, Colville, and Gifford Pinchot National Forests, such as Ski Hill, Freund Canyon, No2 Canyon, Sun Mountain, Hansen Ridge, Kettle Crest, Strawberry Ridge, and along the SR 410 corridor also benefited from our work crews. VOLUNTEER GOVERNANCE AND EDUCATION: Leadership and education volunteers for the organization also included 15 Board volunteers, over 60 chapter council chairs, and 125 educators who contributed an additional 4,500 hours of governance, advocacy, and instruction. Our total volunteer impact amounted to just over 25,000 hours, delivered by over 4,100 individual volunteers, representing over $871,750 in donated volunteer labor. 44999 0 0 2315271 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23 0 1 100 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 17 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 X X Micah Shapiro 2065242900 249 Main Ave S STE 107-188 North Bend WA 98045 Micah Shapiro Finance Director 40 0 X 108521 0 -1119 Tara Moser Interim Executive Director March - July 2024 40 0 X 97714 0 3759 Yvonne Kraus Executive Director to March 2024 40 0 X 64594 0 -2928 Eddie Espinosa Executive Director from July 2024 40 0 X 49462 0 3514 Jesse Cunningham Director 20 0 X 29325 0 159 Matthew Orlando Director 6 0 X 7868 0 455 Tony Hickok President 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Tyler Forman Vice President 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Jim Jacobson Treasurer 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Melinda Dupree-Larson Secretary 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Josef Hoffman Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Joseph Brown Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Adrienne Bee Lane Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Chris Conley Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Greg Morris Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Vern Boyles Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Juliette Kern Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Patrick Lynch Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Andrew Grant Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Matt Crisler Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Scott Tucker Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 357484 0 3840 1 0 0 0 0 0 401515 0 0 1231919 965519 34172 2598953 Education Courses 611620 342691 342691 0 0 Trail Construction 237990 184445 184445 0 0 0 0 0 0 527136 69810 0 0 69810 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4170 8506 -4336 0 0 -4336 21640 18391 3249 0 970 2279 0 3194812 527136 970 67753 29969 29969 21294 21294 253921 157550 64062 32309 1689322 1229436 447481 12405 12214 12214 230714 150499 75923 4292 29777 29777 212272 168066 39194 5012 2126 1853 119 154 47119 20375 9853 16891 39500 772 38728 29584 23667 5917 139719 126999 12613 107 0 8282 7258 1024 950 950 23455 2658 20797 55209 41407 13802 Equipment & Tools 169178 168570 608 0 Supplies & Materials 135177 114445 6040 14692 Licenses, Taxes, Permits, Fees 45082 44321 631 130 Membership & Dues 6282 6132 150 0 0 3181146 2315271 779883 85992 465422 404781 1614530 1675464 226233 294854 26017 13657 275 0 9194 4127 241426 184687 67667 56739 41901 23943 2451239 2473565 119354 148838 920 1620 46782 29316 167056 179774 X 2138591 2035103 145592 258688 2284183 2293791 2451239 2473565 13666 0 0 0 -4058 0 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 1411063 2309835 2843048 2562029 2598953 11724928 1411063 2309835 2843048 2562029 2598953 11724928 0 11724928 1538 829 4077 8059 69810 84313 4684 -1087 -1076 1436 970 4927 11814168 3032531 0.99245 0.99804 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1100 600 1700 3179446 3181146 309057 77264 0 0 235668 298567 310187 309057 1153479 1730219 3230 823 832 1700 6585 58917 74642 77547 77264 288370 432555 3230 823 832 1100 5985 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 241426 184687 56739 0 0 0 0 56739 0 Lease Liability 29316 29316 3125184 0 1275 0 -79409 -78134 3203318 0 -8506 -8506 3194812 3111518 1275 0 0 8507 9782 3101736 0 79410 79410 3181146 Schedule D, Part XI, Line 2d Event Expenses included in income on Audit: -$58,114; Scholarship Expenses included in income on Audit: -$21,294, Rounding Difference: -$1 Schedule D, Part XI, Line 4b Raffle Expenses: -$8,506 Schedule D, Part XII, Line 2d Raffle Expenses: $8,506, Rounding Difference: $1 Schedule D, Part XII, Line 4b Event Expenses included in income on Audit: $58,114; Scholarship Expenses included in income on Audit: $21,294, Rounding Difference: $2 1 City of Spokane Parks and Rec 808 W Spokane Falls Blvd Suite 5 Spokane WA 99201 064100001 Government Entity 25000 Evergreen match for the Camp Sekani parking lot improvements 1 0 Scholarships 919 0 21294 Book Discounted or Donated Tuition Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 For any grant funds, Evergreen staff provides oversight and are engaged in numerous project update meetings to monitor spending, ensure funds are being used in accordance with the grant, and to evaluate the use and effectiveness of the donation to a project. X 4 12237 High/Low Average X Various Raffle Prizes 1 8506 Fair Market Value X Supplies and Equipment 7 13429 Fair Market Value 0 1 0 Form 990, Part I, Line 6 Our total volunteer impact amounted to just over 25,000 hours, delivered by over 4,100 individual volunteers, representing over $871,750 in donated volunteer labor. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b There are no committees with the authority to act on behalf of the governing body. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Copies of Form 990 are presented to Management and the Board. The form is reviewed; then the contract accountant and staff address any questions that come up prior to filing the form with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance has a conflict of interest policy. The policy requires disclosure of interest, relationships and holdings that could potentially result in a conflict of interest. Board Members are required to update a conflict of interest questionnaire annually, which covers any potential conflicts of interest in an organizational transaction or decisions which would affect themselves, their family members, employer, or associates. Board Members may not participate in discussion or voting on such matters where there is a potential conflict of interest. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The new Executive Director's compensation was decided upon in alignment with annual and strategic plan goals and milestones. An adjustment was made based on experience to set the new Executive Director's compensation upon their hiring in 2024. Final Compensation approval was conducted in Executive Session at a Board meeting. There are no other paid officers or Key Employees. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization's Form 990, Form 1023, Bylaws, Conflict of Interest Policy, and Financial Statements are all available upon request at the office. In addition, Form 990 is also available on public websites such as propublica.org