Achieve Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371860566
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Buena Vista, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7193954006
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,539
- Expenses
- $125,236
- Assets
- $167,549
- Liabilities
- $20,098
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DI): $31,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Achieve provides innovative opportunities for individuals with neurodivergencies including mental health challenges in rural Colorado, to cultivate meaningful job and life skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
Little engine eatery - job skills training social enterprise during summer 2024, achieve operated its little engine eatery food trailer, providing hands-on job training and mentorship for 14 neurodivergent participants over 76 days. Additionally, we organized an all-day employment skills seminar for neurodivergent individuals, which attracted 7 participants not otherwise involved in our job skills program. This brought the total number of program participants receiving job skills training to 21. Little engine eatery fulfilled over 1,400 orders, showcasing the abilities of neurodivergent workers and enhancing their acceptance into the mainstream workforce. Many participants transitioned to community employment after completing the program. All program participants showed improvement in at least one of the following skills: money-handling, communication, problem solving, self-advocacy, and social skills. 86% of program participants reported improvement in at least 3 of 6 specific job skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
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: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $125K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.