Colorado Communications Network Action
Overview
Mission
Social welfare purposes surrounding redistricting of Colorado.
What it reported doing in 2025
To educate and inform voters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850836874
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Headquarters
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039496775
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $352K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.