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TREAD LIGHTLY INC

EIN 87-0481456 N SALT LAKE, UT

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Revenue 2024
$1,662,600
Expenses 2024
$2,527,942

Program services were 83.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N010
Classification
2000
Street
801 ROBINSON DR STE 400

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Tread Lightly! engages partnersincluding the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, other public land agencies, industry, and recreation communitiesto protect and sustain motorized access to America's public lands through responsible recreation education, stewardship and partnership activation.

  • During the fiscal year, Tread Lightly! advanced its mission to promote responsible outdoor recreation through stewardship, education, and strategic partnerships. The organization worked with public land agencies, nonprofit organizations, recreation groups, industry partners, local communities, and volunteers to protect public lands, improve recreation infrastructure, restore trails and natural resources, reduce environmental impacts, and support sustainable access to outdoor recreation. Program activities included trail maintenance and restoration, cleanup projects, habitat and watershed improvements, signage and visitor education, volunteer engagement, and responsible recreation outreach. These efforts helped strengthen conservation outcomes, improve the public-land recreation experience, and build long-term capacity for stewardship across diverse recreation communities.

    Expenses $2,112,434 · Grants $87,467 · Revenue $424,716

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Harold Phillips

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tyler Ruby

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristin Golliher

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thom Zielinski

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jan Rintamaki

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nena Barlow

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Logan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Nasi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Martelli

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jon Lee

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bethany Dudley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charlene Bower

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christine Jourdain

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Granat

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lance Clifford

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ron Frazier

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jackie Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nick Willette

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catherina Appling-Pooler

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Caldwell

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $53,149
    From this org
    $51,591
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,558
    Hours/week
    40

  • Matt Gaskins

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $79,802
    From this org
    $77,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,725
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Sype

    Marketing Director

    Total calculated
    $105,348
    From this org
    $101,935
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,413
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,662,600
    Expenses
    $2,527,942
    Contributions
    $1,197,548
    Grants paid
    $87,467
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,129,208
    Expenses
    $2,539,855
    Contributions
    $1,956,312
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,991,003
    Expenses
    $2,215,230
    Contributions
    $2,940,833
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,287,290
    Expenses
    $1,831,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,548,846

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,757,355
    Expenses
    $1,255,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,204,441

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,369,560
    Expenses
    $1,360,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $768,494

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,501,844
    Expenses
    $1,475,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $666,298

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,044,890
    Expenses
    $1,947,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $756,631

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,217,396
    Expenses
    $1,283,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $515,757

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,308,120
    Expenses
    $1,276,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $684,335

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,289,955
    Expenses
    $1,202,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $706,680

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,347,030
    Expenses
    $1,284,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $535,099

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,450,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $497,527

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.