Coal Creek Watershed Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260894694
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Crested Butte, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9703492527
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,159
- Expenses
- $82,532
- Assets
- $80,361
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ASHLEY BEMBENEK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TIM SZURGOT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHEA EARLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN HESS (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- ASHLEY BEMBENEK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TIM SZURGOT (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To maintain, restore, and enhance the environmental integrity of crested buttes local watershed to ensure those local watersheds and habitats are of the highest possible quality necessary to support wildlife, aquatic life, and human life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sampling and monitoring water in coal creek to assessstatus and make improvements and to implement watershed planand improve water quality. This work benefits approximately 1500 residents in the town of crested butte.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.