Blast N Scrap

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862034193
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone
2014867767
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,342
Expenses
$143,516
Assets
$19,441
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Joshua David Rivera (Chair)
  • Sarah Parrish (Member of the Board and Contract Grant Writer)
  • Riley Phipps (Member of the Board)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Arts and education - donation based with no one turned away for lack of funds; all ages always; safe and healthy environments with onsite harm reduction, mental health, and mutual aid resources, information, and referrals.

What it reported doing in 2024

Reduce N Recover - supports harm reduction and sexual health supplies, resources, training, and referrals at all Blast N Scrap shows, and 10+ local venues (whether Blast N Scrap is there or not), delivers quarterly trainings on harm reduction and assault and harassment prevention for at least 50 industry professionals each year to keep Fort Collins area venues and music scenes safer for all; supports the delivery of biweekly peer support substance use recovery meetings that are unique in celebrating incremental change and rejecting "all-or-nothing" approaches to recovery; supported the collaboration to deliver the Fight the Stigma Festival, an all-day music festival featuring artists and musicians on recovery paths with onsite recovery resources and remarks by community leaders serving an audience of 250+

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.7%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 65.3%; rating input score 65

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 60.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 45.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.7% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.