City Club of Boise Inc 03-07-95

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820478972
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Boise, ID, USA
Phone
2083644614
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$211,064
Expenses
$196,051
Assets
$154,663
Liabilities
$17,958

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Darwin Roy (Past President)
  • Vanessa Fry (President)
  • Steve Frinsko (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Liz Fitzgerald (Director)
  • Latonia Haney Keith (Director)
  • Ryan Hill (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

One of Idaho's most respected civic organizations, City Club of Boise brings people together for nonpartisan conversations, rooted in civility, about local, state, and national issues that matter. These programs help develop an informed, healthy, diverse and dynamic community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Forum Series is at the core of City Club's programming. A Forum is a moderated event featuring a speaker, or a panel of speakers, on a relevant and timely topic, with an opportunity for Q & A (submitted in writing at the event) from the audience. The moderator collects and asks the audience questions to ensure the conversation is civil. The Forums are planned and developed by volunteers and supported by our community partners across multiple fields: business and community leaders, scholars, and experts in their field - a wellspring of talent - all created by and for our community. During 2025 the organization conducted eleven (11) Forums with nearly 1,700 attendees, exploring critical topics including education policy, Idaho's healthcare system, housing, open primaries, and election information. City Club brings people together to explore community issues and hear diverse viewpoints by creating opportunities where conversations happen. The Forums are broadcast twice during the week following the event through our partnership with Boise State Public Radio, whose cumulative listening audience is estimated to be more than 75,000 listeners per week. The recording of the Forum is archived on their website: https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/city-club-of-boise. This ensures statewide (and to anyone with access to the internet - global) access to the content at no cost.

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 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 7.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.