Boulder Open Space Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821716267
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,389
- Expenses
- $165,250
- Assets
- $165,984
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alyson Duffey (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Diane Murphy (Chair)
- Eric Washburn (Vice-Chair)
- Jessica Dauchy (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Boulder Open Space Conservancy is a non-profit organization that partners with the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks department to promote and enhance the ecological resilience of our public lands to climate change through sponsorship of conservation projects and community education for the benefit of all current and future generations of Boulder citizens and visitors.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 BOSC raised community awareness and stewardship for public lands and trails in Boulder. BOSC contributed $60,000 to City of Boulder OSMP for Responsible Recreation & Infrastructure $29,850.11 Connecting Youth to Nature & Boulder Junior Ranger program $10,044.65 and Climate Resilience & ReWilding projects $5,187.26 and $14,917.98 for other OSMP greatest project needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
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: 11.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 53%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.