Altitude Trampoline Park Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
Data from FDD filing + SBA 7(a) records
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
Altitude Trampoline Park is an entertainment franchise operating indoor trampoline and adventure parks with attractions, dodgeball, and foam pits. Franchisees run a park managing attractions, staff, parties, and admissions.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A Altitude Trampoline Park franchise requires a total initial investment of $2.1M – $3.5M, including a $65K franchise fee and an ongoing 6.0% royalty[2]. Per the 2026 FDD, average unit revenue was $2.0M[2]. SBA 7(a) loans show a 6.4% charge-off rate across 47 loans[1]. FranchiseVerdict grade: A (Strongest tier), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Data last verified · figures per the 2026 FDD issuance
Overview
- Investment
- $2.1M – $3.5M
- 50th pct Recreation & …
- Avg gross sales
- $2.0M
- 14th pct Recreation & …
- Royalty
- 6.0%
- 7th pct Recreation & …
- Units
- 81
- 42nd pct Recreation & …
- SBA charge-off
- 6.4%
- % of SBA 7(a) loans not repaid · median varies by category
Quick verdict · Recreation & Entertainment · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Recreation & Entertainment avg · No shading = within ±10% · Red = unfavorable by >10% · Source: FDD filings + SBA 7(a)
Data from public FDD filings and SBA records. Not financial advice. Methodology
Bottom line
- COSTTotal investment $2.1M – $3.5M including a $65K franchise fee, 6.0% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSAverage unit revenue of $2.0M/year (median $1.9M). Note: this is gross profit, not take-home income.
- RISKVerdict A (Strongest tier), verdict score 64/100 (higher is better). SBA loan charge-off rate of 6.4% across 47 loans (near or below the 16% franchise average, based on all SBA 7(a) franchise lending, 2010–2025).
- FLAGBankruptcy history disclosed in the FDD. Review Item 4 for details before proceeding.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- ATP Franchising, LLC
- Parent company
- ATP Holding Company, LLC
- Ultimate parent
- Indoor Active Brands, LLC
- Predecessor
- Altitude Franchising, LLC (now SR Franchising, LLC) / J&C IP, Inc.
- Prior franchisor entity
- CEO title
- President
- Christopher Kuehn
- Incorporated in
- DE
- HQ
- 12222 Merit Drive, Suite 1300, Dallas, Texas 75251
- Auditor
- Bennett Thrasher LLP
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $10.2M
- vs $9.6M prior year
Overview
About
- CEO
- Christopher Kuehn
- Headquarters
- TX
- Founded
- 2018
- FDD year
- 2026
- States available
- 25
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 109% above the typical recreation & entertainment franchise.
Source: FDD 2026 · Items 5–7
FDD Item 7 · 2026 filing
Initial investment breakdown
| Cost component | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Initial franchise fee | $65K | $65K |
| Working capital (3–6 mo) | $200K | $200K |
| Equipment, build-out, other | $1.8M | $3.2M |
| Total initial investment | $2.1M | $3.5M |
Source: Altitude Trampoline Park 2026 FDD, Items 5 and 7[2]. “Equipment, build-out, other” is computed as total minus disclosed line items above.
Item 7 · what it costs to open + operate
The Vitals
- Total investment
- $2.1M – $3.5M
- Middle of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $200K – $200K
- Middle of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $65K – $65K
- Middle of category vs category
- Royalty
- 6.0%
- percentage · typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 2.0%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 0.1%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 6.0% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 2.0% of gross sales |
| Technology fee | $250 |
| Training fee | $8K |
| Transfer fee | $15K |
| Renewal fee | $16K |
| Inventory (initial) | $40K – $60K |
| Total fee load | 0.1% of rev |
A 0.1% total fee load is unusually lean. More of each revenue dollar stays with the franchisee.
What do units actually make?
Average unit sales run 106% above the recreation & entertainment norm.
Source: FDD 2026 · Item 19
Single-unit · estimated
Returns at a glance
Indicative numbers using FDD Item 7 / Item 19 inputs and category-benchmarked cost ratios. Full single-unit, 25-unit portfolio, and LBO models (with every input editable to stress-test your own scenario) live on the financials page.
Store EBITDA · annual
$307K
15.0% margin
Unlevered ROIC
10%
EBITDA / total invested capital
Payback
9.8 yrs
cash-on-cash, unlevered
ROI & LBO modelsSingle-unit · 25-unit portfolio · editable
What one unit earns on your invested capital
Model A · Single-Unit Return
Computes unlevered return on invested capital (ROIC) for a single franchise unit. The target band for an attractive franchise is 30–60% ROIC. Below that and a passive index fund likely outperforms; above that and the franchisor has pricing power you're subsidizing.
Note: Item 19 revenue is what the franchisor discloses. It's the top line only. Operating costs below are category estimates. Override them to match your real lease quote, labor market, and build-out budget.
Returns model · single-unit ROIC
What would one Altitude Trampoline Park unit return on the cash you put in?
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
Estimated return on your total franchise investment, before any debt financing.
10%
Below the 30–60% attractive-franchise band
What 25 units return when you use SBA financing
Model B · Return on Equity: Debt-Financed Acquisition
Models a 25-unit portfolio acquisition financed with an SBA 7(a) loan. Shows equity IRR (your return on cash invested), DSCR (how safely the cash flow covers debt service), and the capital stack (SBA + seller + equity breakdown).
This is the “search fund” or “entrepreneurship through acquisition” scenario: you buy an existing multi-unit operator, use leverage to amplify returns, and either operate or hire management. The 25-unit size is the typical minimum for an SBA-backed franchise portfolio acquisition to pencil as a full-time income.
What “return on equity” means here: if you put in $500K of your own cash and the business generates enough EBITDA to pay down debt and grow, your equity IRR is the annual return on that $500K, including the value created when you eventually sell. Target IRR for a search fund is typically 25–35%.
Levered LBO scenario · Yale Crease Capital framing
What would 25 Altitude Trampoline Park units return on equity?
Equity IRR · 5-yr
32.5%
4.09× MOIC
Year-1 DSCR
2.48×
EBITDA ÷ debt service
Equity required
$6.5M
on $16.4M purchase
Total debt
$9.9M
SBA $5.0M + senior + seller note
These models are for research and scenario planning only. Not investment advice. Actual results depend on your specific location, management, and market conditions. Consult a franchise attorney and accountant before signing any franchise agreement.
Item 19 · Source: 2026 FDD
Financial Performance
- Avg gross sales
- $2.0M
- Per unit, per year
- Median gross sales
- $1.9M
Gross sales are revenue before expenses — not profit. Actual owner earnings depend on rent, labor, royalties, marketing fees, and debt service.
- Item 19 type
- Gross Sales by quartile; also COGS, Payroll, EBITDA % for subset
- Sample size
- 64
- vs category median 5 · large
- Range (low → high)
- $716K→$3.8M
- Cohort dispersion (min → max)
- Quartile band
- $1.3M→$3.0M
- Bottom 25% → top 25%
- Reporting year
- 2025
- Fiscal year the figures cover
- Source filing
- FDD 2026
- Disclosed in the 2026 filing, covering 2025
- Transparency
- 10 / 10
- vs category median 4 / 10 · above
Compared against 166 Recreation & Entertainment brands
Revenue is only 0.7x the investment. This means each unit may take 5+ years to recoup the initial outlay at typical margins.
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Unit economics
Average unit generates $2.0M/year in gross sales. Revenue-to-investment ratio: 0.7x.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 0.1% — below the Recreation & Entertainment average of 8.8%.
Disclosure
Transparency score 10/10 — this franchisor discloses detailed breakdowns (quartiles, segments, or cohort data). Buyers can model unit economics with higher confidence.
Operator retention
System expanding at 7.6% CAGR over 3 years across 81 units — operators are staying and new ones are joining.
Source: FDD Item 19 financial performance representations and publicly filed FDD data. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Verify all figures with the franchisor and current franchisees before making any investment decision.
vs Recreation & Entertainment averages
How Altitude Trampoline Park Compares
Is the system healthy?
Source: FDD 2026 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 81
- Opened
- 5
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 3
- Terminated
- 0
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 0
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- 9.9%
- Company-owned
- 10
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 88%
- vs corporate-owned
- Net growth (3-yr)
- +7.6%
- Net unit change over 3 years
- 3-yr CAGR
- +7.6%
- Compounded over last 3 years
3-year detail · Item 20
- Opened (3yr)
- 14
- Closed (3yr)
- 4
- Terminated (3yr)
- 2
- Non-renewed (3yr)
- 1
- Transfers (3yr)
- 13
- Reacquired (3yr)
- 3
- Franchisor bought back
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 20 · 25 states with active franchisees
The Territory Map
Derived from franchisee contact records. Shows states with at least one current operator. Not where the franchisor is registered to sell new units (that data is re-extracting in a future refresh).
States derived from franchisee contact records (FDD Item 20). Shows states with at least one current operator on file. Full state registration data (Item 12) will appear on a future FDD refresh.
SBA loan performance
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) and 504 loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
- Total loans
- 47
- Loan volume
- $82.9M
- Median loan
- $1.7M
- 50th percentile
- Charge-off rate
- 6.4%
- rates vary by category · see methodology
Historical SBA 7(a) lending data, not predictive of future performance. How SBA charge-off rates are calculated
- Repayment rate (PIF)
- 93.6%
- 5-yr charge-off
- N/A
- Loans approved 2021+
- Active lenders
- 20
- Defaults
- 3
- Typical loan rate
- 7.7%
- avg rate to borrowers
- Franchised industry avg
- 13.9%
- brand beats franchise avg ↓
- Jobs supported
- 2,645
- 3.2 per loan
- Lender concentration
- 15%
- top lender's share
Borrower mix: 72% went to startups / new businesses, 28% to established operators
Franchise vs independent — in all other amusement and recreation industries, franchised businesses charge off at 13.9% vs 16.2% for independents — franchising is associated with 14% lower SBA default risk in this category.
Vintage analysis
Altitude Trampoline Park charge-off rate by loan vintage
Top lenders financing Altitude Trampoline Park franchisees
Showing 3 of 20 lenders. The full breakdown — every lender, state distribution, interest rates & risk ratings — is in the SBA Lending Report below.
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Premium insight
SBA Lending Report
Deep-dive into Altitude Trampoline Park's SBA lending history: lender network, geographic footprint, interest rates, and more.
SBA Lending Report
- Principal loss rate and NAICS industry benchmark
- 10 lenders with concentration factor
- Per-state charge-off rates across 15 states
- Startup risk premium and job creation velocity
- 8-year lending trend
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What could kill this investment?
SBA loans charge off at 6.4% — 60% below the 16.0% national norm, i.e. lower lender-observed risk.
Source: SBA 7(a) FOIA · FDD Items 3, 21
Risk analysis
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 4, 8, 16, 21
Risk & Legal
Altitude presents HIGH RISK due to stagnant unit growth, active litigation including fraud allegations, thin profit margins relative to capital investment, and lack of financial performance disclosures.
Litigation (Item 3)
Three personal injury lawsuits from New Jersey franchised Park alleging negligence and consumer fraud; one franchisee arbitration (Bedrock) stayed by agreement; concluded cases include predecessor-related disputes (ATPH v. Skallerup/Rutten settled Dec 2021, Jim Kamp settled $200K, Bump It Up settled $1.075M, Pruitt settled $10K)
Largest disclosed settlement: $1,075,000
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
Disclosed in last 7 years
Ruby Tuesday, Inc. filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy October 7, 2020; Aziz Hashim (Chairman of parent ATPH Board) was an officer of Ruby Tuesday at time of filing; case closed December 10, 2021
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Bennett Thrasher LLP
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
ⓘ These are the parent company's consolidated financials (the parent guarantees the franchisor), not this brand's standalone results — the figure reflects the whole corporate group, not this brand alone.
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: No
- Kickbacks from required suppliers: Yes
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
- Can negotiate own supplier terms: No
Score breakdown · what drove the 64 / 100 verdict
- 01MINORStagnant unit growth at 2.9% YoY with only 81 locations suggests market saturation or franchisee underperformance
- 02MINORMultiple active personal injury lawsuits and pending arbitration indicate systemic liability exposure and potential operational/safety issues
- 03MINORHigh capital requirement ($2.1M-$3.5M) paired with modest average net income ($502K) yields 4-7 year ROI with compressed margins after 6% royalties
- 04HIGHLitigation history includes fraud allegations and misrepresentation claims, raising concerns about franchisor transparency and agent practices
- 05HIGHGoing Concern status of 'False' is ambiguous; clarification needed on franchisor financial stability
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 0.1% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2026 · Items 11, 12, 17
FDD Items 12, 15, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
| Initial term | 10 years |
|---|---|
| Renewal term | 10 years |
| Allowed renewalsℹ | 1 |
| Territory type | protected |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | Yes |
| Territory radius | 5 mi |
| Online sales rightsℹ | Restricted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Optional |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 2 years |
| Non-compete (miles)ℹ | 15 mi |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| RoFR response window | 30 days |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 10 days |
| Curable defaultsℹ | 6 |
| Mandatory arbitration | Yes |
| Arbitration location | Dallas, Texas |
| Jury trial waiver | Yes |
| Governing law | DE |
| Litigation count | 4 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
Three personal injury lawsuits from New Jersey franchised Park alleging negligence and consumer fraud; one franchisee arbitration (Bedrock) stayed by agreement; concluded cases include predecessor-related disputes (ATPH v. Skallerup/Rutten settled Dec 2021, Jim Kamp settled $200K, Bump It Up settled $1.075M, Pruitt settled $10K)
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 14 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 66 hrs
- Training location
- Certified Training Park
- Ongoing training
- Required
- Field support
- 6 hrs/yr
- On-site visits per year
- Time to open
- 18 mo
- From signing to launch
- Site selection
- Franchisee with franchisor approval; must use approved site selection services vendor
- Franchisor financing
- Not offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- Roller Software
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: Roller Software
Item 20 · call current owners
Franchisee Contacts
95 owners to call
Name · phone · city · state. Extracted from FDD Item 20
FDD download
Altitude Trampoline Park · FDD (2026) PDF
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a Altitude Trampoline Park franchise?
The total investment to open a Altitude Trampoline Park franchise ranges from $2.1M – $3.5M, with an initial franchise fee of $65K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do Altitude Trampoline Park franchise owners earn?
According to Item 19 of the Altitude Trampoline Park FDD, the average gross sales per unit is $2.0M. The median is $1.9M. Note: this is gross revenue, not profit. Actual owner earnings vary based on location, operating costs, and management.
What is Item 19 in the Altitude Trampoline Park FDD?
The FDD section where a franchisor may disclose financial performance of its outlets. Disclosure is optional and formats vary; figures are typically gross sales, which is revenue before expenses, not profit. FranchiseVerdict extracts these figures directly from the Altitude Trampoline Park FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is Altitude Trampoline Park's franchise failure rate?
Based on SBA 7(a) loan data, Altitude Trampoline Park has a charge-off rate of 6.4% across 47 loans, meaning 6.4% of franchise loans were charged off. Charge-off rates are one proxy for franchise risk, though they do not capture all closures. This data comes from FOIA-sourced SBA lending records.
How many Altitude Trampoline Park franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, Altitude Trampoline Park has 81 total units in the United States, including 71 franchised units and 10 company-owned units. 5 new units were opened in the latest reporting year.
Is Altitude Trampoline Park a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates Altitude Trampoline Park as a A-grade franchise with a verdict score of 64 out of 100 (higher is better), based on our analysis of investment costs, revenue data, SBA loan performance, and growth trends. Our rating is based solely on publicly available FDD and government data; we recommend speaking with current franchisees before making any investment decision. This is not investment advice.
Data sourced from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) FOIA records. Not financial advice.
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