Center for Nonprofit Excellence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202659477
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7195754341
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,404
- Expenses
- $17,370
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Abby Sienkiewicz (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Abby Sienkiewicz (Executive Director): $39,236 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes Peak region through nonprofit innovation and excellence. The Organization was merged into the Colorado Nonprofit Association in 2018 and operations and services to the nonprofit community in Colorado Springs area will continue in the Pikes Peak Office of the Colorado Nonprofit Association.
What it reported doing in 2018
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence is the Pikes Peak region's locally trusted resource for nonprofits and the people working to achieve their missions. CNE provides connections, education, and resources to nonprofit professionals, board members, volunteers and businesses looking to engage in social change work. Every day we provide valuable tools through educational workshops, consulting, collaborative events, monthly roundtables and an annual conference that educates and informs nonprofit professionals, their supporters and the community. This last year, over 2,900 individuals attended CNE workshops, trainings, roundtables and Nonprofit Day Conference.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
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 the required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.4%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 225.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -24.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -39.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.4% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $39K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2018
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.