Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$202,559

Total expenses

$126,175

Contributions and grants received

$154,680

Grants paid

$57,200

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$47,879

Total assets, end of year

$382,534

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,861

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$379,673

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$72,545

Management and general expenses

$28,288

Fundraising expenses

$25,342

Program service expenses (Part III)

$72,545

Program services were 57.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• TREAD LIGHTLY! IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT LEADS A NATIONAL INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE THE RESPONSIBLE USE OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES WHEN RECREATING OUTDOORS. THEIR GOAL IS TO BALANCE THE OFF-ROAD AND OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE (OHV) USERS' NEED FOR ADVENTURE WITH THE NEED TO CONSERVE THE PLACES WHERE THEY RIDE AND EXPLORE.PROJECT 1: COLORADO TRAIL CLEAN UPSWITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE RISING SUN 4 WHEEL DRIVE CLUB OF COLORADO VOLUNTEERS REMOVED 65LBS OF TRASH FROM ARGENTINE PASS AND 160LBS OF TRASH FROM KINGSTON PASS. THE GROUP ALSO SCOUTED A FEW SECTIONS OF TRAIL FOR FUTURE EROSION CONTROL.PROJECT 2: EDGE OF THE WORLD, AZTREAD LIGHTLY!, AZ PLASMA, BFGOODRICH TIRES OUTSTANDING TRAILS, AND THE USFS ALL CAME TOGETHER TO INSTALL AN INFORMATIONAL KIOSK AT THE TRAILHEAD TO EDGE OF THE WORLD. THE TRAILHEAD LEADS TO OVER 26 MILES OF TRAIL THROUGH A BREATHTAKING CANYON AND FANTASTIC VIEWS OF SEDONA AND OAK CREEKS. DUE TO IT'S HEAVY USE BY OVERLANDERS, OFF-ROADERS, AND DISPERSED CAMPERS, THE SIGNS WERE VERY MUCH NEEDED TO INFORM RECREATIONALISTS ABOUT LEGAL TRAILS, AREA RULES, AND RESPONSIBLE RECREATION EDUCATION.PROJECT 3: KIDS' RC DRIVING COURSETHROUGHOUT THE YEAR, TREAD LIGHTLY! AND THE OVERLAND EXPO FOUNDATION TEAMED UP AT OVERLAND EXPO EVENTS TO PROVIDE KIDS EDUCATION THROUGH AN RC DRIVING COURSE. THE COURSE INCLUDED STOPS ALONG THE WAY THAT CORRESPONDED WITH THE TREAD PLEDGE. THE TREAD PLEDGE IS A MODIFICATION OF THE TREAD PRINCIPLES AIMED AT TEACHING KIDS THE IMPORTANCE OF RESPONSIBLE OFF-ROAD TRAVEL. OVER 350 KIDS AND 225 PARENTS/GUARDIANS WENT THROUGH THE COURSE.

  Expenses $72,545 · Grants $15,000

• RALLY FOR RANGERS PROJECT: BLACK HILLS TRIBAL PROJECTRALLY FOR RANGERS CONNECTS MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIASTS PASSIONATE ABOUT DISCOVERING AND PROTECTING THE WORLD'S SPECIAL PLACES WITH PARK RANGERS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATED IN AN ADVENTURE MOTORCYCLE RALLY BASED IN CUSTER, SD, TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE AND OGLALA-SIOUX TRIBAL PARKS AS WELL AS THE BLACK HILLS NATIONAL FOREST MOTORIZED TRAILS PROGRAM.IN ADDITION TO THE GRANT PROVIDED BY THE OXF, PARTICIPANTS WERE ABLE TO RAISE MORE THAN $20,000 TO PURCHASE AND DONATE A NEW MOTORCYCLE, NIGHT VISION OPTICS, TACTICAL BINOCULARS, AND STURDY FLASHLIGHTS. PARTICIPANTS ALSO SPENT A HALF-DAY VOLUNTEERING FOR THE USDA NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE TO INSTALL NEW FENCING WHICH BLOCKS ACCESS TO ILLEGAL RIDING AREAS, AND CONDUCTED A CLEAN UP OF THE SAME AREA REMOVING TIRES, TRASH, SHOOTING RANGE BRASS, AND MORE.

  Grants $10,000

• FOX BRAVO OVERLAND PROJECT: OPERATION SOUTHWESTERN SPIRITOPERATION SOUTHWESTERN SPIRIT CONSISTED OF 26 MILITARY VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS FROM THE US ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS, FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE FIRE SERVICE, THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY, THE BRITISH ARMY AND BRITISH LAW ENFORCEMENT. MANY SUFFER FROM POST TRAUMATIC STRESS (PTS); MANY HAVE PHYSICAL DISABILITIES DUE TO THEIR SERVICE. AFTER LEAVING SERVICE, EITHER VOLUNTARILY OR DUE TO INJURY OR ILLNESS, MANY DO NOT RECONNECT WITH THEIR COMMUNITY. FBO REACHES OUT AND ENCOURAGES TEAMMATES TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR TRIPS TO HELP RE-ESTABLISH COMMUNITY AND HOPE.

  Grants $5,000

• THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDED 27,200 IN GRANTS TO MULTIPLE CAUSES INCLUDING MOTORCYCLE RELIEF PROJECT, TEAM OVERLAND, TEAM WILDLANDERS, THE GRACEFUL RENEGADE, TWO WOLF FOUNDATION, AND VOX TO SUPPORT AND FURTHER THEIR GENERAL MISSION.

  Grants $27,200

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• TREAD LIGHTLY INC

  $15,000

  GENERAL SUPPORT OF ORGANIZATION'S MISSION

• MONGOL ECOLOGY CENTER

  $10,000

  GENERAL SUPPORT OF ORGANIZATION'S MISSION

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

6 August 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

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