CHEC | Christian Home Educators of Colorado
Legal name: Christian Home Educators of Colorado
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841155835
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elizabeth, CO, USA
- Phone
- 720.842.4852
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,259,976
- Expenses
- $3,118,447
- Assets
- $3,387,429
- Liabilities
- $82,833
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL ROACH (PRESIDENT)
- GEORGE SECHRIST (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN CRAIG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN SWANSON (DIRECTOR): $92,583 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN CRAIG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $90,800 total reported compensation
- BRENDA KELLY (SECRETARY): $32,206 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian Home Educators of Colorado motivates parents to disciple the next generation of Christians to impact our state and beyond for Christ and His Kingdom by providing information, leadership, and resources. Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) exists to defend your family’s freedom and help you homeschool with confidence. Since 1990, CHEC has supported families by providing free online information, training conferences, seminars, publications, an independent umbrella school, and resources tailored to the unique needs of those homeschooling in Colorado. With a commitment to Christ centered, parent directed education, CHEC continues to be a trusted leader for the growing Colorado homeschool community. Mission and Vision.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization maintains a staffed office to provide resources, information and support to home educators including events, recordkeeping, graduation ceremonies, introductory seminars, and academic competitions. Also, the office publishes a tri-annual magazine mailed to over 9,000 recipients providing information on current trends, techniques, and resources in home education. In addition, the organization hosts a day at the capital event to provide teaching on civil responsibility. In 2024, 842 people attended. The organization also runs an independent school to provide a legal option to homeschooling. There were 3,383 families enrolled.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $57.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.