Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462463157
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037577901
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Societal Benefit
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,607,759
- Expenses
- $1,604,232
- Assets
- $576,787
- Liabilities
- $524,735
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LAUREN DEUTSCH (EXECUTIVE DI): $241,592 total reported compensation
- CYNTHIA LOUISE RICE (LEGAL DIRECT): $164,261 total reported compensation
- NORA FOGARTY (DEVELOPMENT): $141,819 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To defend human and civil rights secured by law, including but not limited to laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability, race, gender, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Continued monitoring compliance with curb remediation requirements imposed on 5 municipalities as a result of our earlier litigation, enforced the public records requirements and obtained critical records from federal agencies, continued monitoring of agreement with a school district to ensure continued access to special education programs and filed an appeal to court's decision holding that the state could not be sued to ensure compliance by school districts with state consitutional protections. Continued litigating two cases challenging police practices that resulted in the death of a disabled individual and the unlawful incarceration of another. --------------- more detail on schedule o --------------------
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.91; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.