Cheyenne Mountain Civic Solutions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263105331
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
7194404838
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$21,357
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JON STEPLTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • CRYSTAL COLLETTE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JON STEPLTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • CRYSTAL COLLETTE (PRESIDENT)
  • SEAN PAIGE (TREASURER/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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cheyenne mountain civic solutions works to create universally accessible pathways to opportunity through educational excellence and achievement, economic vitality, and by promoting a healthy, supportive social sector. It seeks to develop business, community, individual, and "civic" solutions to societal issues, such as the eradication of poverty or betterment of education, rather than "government-centered or "political" responses.

What it reported doing in 2021

Poverty solutions is a day-long training designed to examine the nature of the scarcity mindset and its influence on individual behavior, decisions and relationships. Participants explore their own level of security and unconscious biases, creating an understanding of their own behavior while gaining an understanding of why others behave differently, and how the tyranny of the moment can cause people to make poor choices and get caught in the scarcity trap. This self-awareness and understanding of why people do what they do becomes the foundation for establishing relationships of mutual respect. A companion program of poverty solutions is getting ahead in a just getting'-by world (getting ahead). Getting ahead uses trained facilitators to work with small groups of under-resourced individuals, called investigators, who investigate their own life situations, examine and build their own resources, research community conditions and become accountable for their own learning and behavior. Getting ahead while getting out (getting out) is an adaptation of getting ahead and is designed to be used by soon-to-be-released offenders, working in groups of 8 - 12 with trained facilitators, to investigate the impact that poverty and criminal behavior had on them, their families, and the community.

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
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 32
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 2
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.