C.O.L.O.R.S. Foundation
Legal name: C O L O R S Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453908017
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Wappingers Falls, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464072470
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,624
- Expenses
- $4,618
- Assets
- $3,985
- Liabilities
- $1,113
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DELSIE HOWEY (CEO AND FOUNDER)
People named in this filing
- DELSIE HOWEY (CEO AND FOUNDER)
- KEVIN CONNORS (EXECUTIVE VP)
- LUZ MORALES (COO)
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
C.O.L.O.R.S aims to serve and bring awareness to all communities by shattering religious separation and bridging UNITY among multiple divisions. From generation to generation, beliefs are transmitted with the essence of fixed knowledge. We have learned how to separate humanity by incorporating barriers among one’s culture, religion, status, creed, individuality & sex. Since our lives and decisions are grounded within our religious structure, we tend to follow the fabrication of society’s image. C.O.L.O.R.S. aims to serve and bring awareness to all communities by shattering religious separation and bridging UNITY among multiple divisions. is not a religious organization nor does it intend to convert anyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
"Once Upon A Time" Program
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.1%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 9.1% of revenue deployed · 9.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $419 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.