Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742333611
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Durango, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9702473720
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $438,978
- Expenses
- $387,355
- Assets
- $308,375
- Liabilities
- $21,578
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER L BARTLETT (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER L BARTLETT (CEO): $81,061 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and support one-to-one relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Big brothers big sisters of southwest Colorado creates and supports one- to-one mentoring relationships that inspire the power and promise of youth. Our vision is to help all youth in our program achieve their full potential and build an intrinsic feeling of the impact of positive relationships to be received and given throughout their lifetime. By partnering with parents/guardians, educators, volunteers, and other advocates in the community, we are accountable for each youth and volunteer in our program, ages 6 years+, in achieving higher graduation rates, increasing a sense of belonging and confidence, mitigate risky behaviors, and increase a desire to achieve their own success. Our professionally trained staff engage youth in a mentoring relationship within our local community. These relationships are built through two main program models: community-based mentoring and high school bigs mentoring. Community-based matches include a youth and adult that engage through intentional activities to strengthen their relationship. High school big matches are matched in a supervised setting that allow high school-aged mentors to engage with a mentee on a weekly basis, throughout the school year. All youth of any demographic and socio-economic status may be served in our program with the availability of volunteer mentors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.7% of revenue deployed · 65.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $253K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.