Cherry Creek Area Business Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300728153
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
3038811345
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$191,615
Expenses
$114,935
Assets
$185,162
Liabilities
$5,796

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NICK LEMASTERS (PRESIDENT AND CEO)

People named in this filing

  • NICK LEMASTERS (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • STEVER ROGERS (DIRECTOR)
  • STEPHEN STURM (DIRECTOR)

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

The cherry creek area business alliance (ccaba) is organized to educate the public and foster a collaboration of residents, businesses and organizations committed to creating a successful business community in the cherry creek area in the city and county of denver, Colorado. Ccaba encourages investment for art, culture, commercial and transit-oriented development in the area. Ccaba fosters economic development in creating an attractive and vibrant community where residents, employees and visitors can live, work, shop and play.

What it reported doing in 2024

Cherry creek area business alliance engages in a range of outreach efforts to raise the level of understanding among elected officials, candidates, civic officials, members and the general public on the cherry creek area's importance as an economic asset. We make certain our members and other cherry creek area stakeholders have information they need to make informed decisions about issues, policies, and candidates. A special event was hosted by cherry creek area business alliance to show appreciation towards the constituents in the cherry creek neighborhood for their continued support in the community. This event brought awareness to the alliance as a key agent for change in the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 40%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.