Ccira Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237012043
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Windsor, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034539707
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,044
- Expenses
- $185,746
- Assets
- $150,489
- Liabilities
- $2,948
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELE WARNER (PRESIDENT)
- LISA KAHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MICHELE WARNER (PRESIDENT)
- ANNE FOLSOM (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- REBECCA HOOVER (EXECUTIVE SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ccira, inc. Is a professional organization of educators and community members dedicated to the promotion and advancement of literacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ccira's purpose is to improve literacy instruction at all levels with diverse populations, support local councils & members in promoting and advancing literacy, recognize & honor significant contributions to & achievements in literacy, to be a respected & viable voice in literacy conversations and decisions in co, advocate for policies & practices that support the best for all learners, and encourage lifelong habits & appreciation. Ccira's conference provides professional learning covering such topics as thinking strategies, research, response to instruction, student engagement, ell/issues of culture and poverty, and technology. Ccira uses workshops, lab classroom experiences, qualified speakers & authors, and exhibits. Ccira also conducts a young writers festival, organizes author visits to Colorado schools, provides a dvd and video library, provides parent & reading resources, and designates october as "read aloud month" in the state of Colorado, providing materials to promote this concept. Educators, students and parents throughout the state of Colorado benefit from the work of ccira.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $182K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.