Coalition for a Connected West Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 260892802
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2012–2015
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2015
Location: Aurora, CO, USA
Phone: 6023636779
Rating confidence: Limited
Sector: Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $0
Expenses: $47,880
Assets: $0
Liabilities: $0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

RANDY SIMMONS (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

RANDY SIMMONS (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
MICHAEL PRICE (DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
BRYAN DUNCAN (DIRECTOR/TREASURER)

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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educating consumers and policy makers about emerging issues, promoting policies that foster competition, innovation, and result in more consumer choice access to technology, lower prices and better service; and serving as a voice for consumers on communication issues at the state and local level.

What it reported doing in 2015

Educating consumers and policy makers about emerging communication issues. Promotion of policies that foster competition, innovation, and result in more consumer choice access to technology, lower prices and better service.

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: 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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 21
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 1
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: Limited
Program expense ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 56

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 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -33.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -38.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -50.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 56.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 to 2015
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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.

Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.