Colage
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943316616
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 7203554650
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Intergroup, Race Relations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $452,357
- Expenses
- $329,559
- Assets
- $145,538
- Liabilities
- $20,249
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jordan Wilson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jordan Wilson (Executive Director): $89,680 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Colage unites people with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual parents into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
COLAGE provides forums, gatherings, and targeted programming for youth who have one or more LGBTQ+ parents with our largest annual program being Family Week. Family Week is a partnership with Family Equality to provide programming for over 600 families and their children for the last week in July in Provincetown, MA. For COLAGE, the program serves as an incubator space to build and develop programs that are then brought to other local communities around the U.S. both virtually and in person. COLAGE held its second annual Atlanta Family Weekend as part of Atlanta Pride. In 2024 we launched QUIP (Queerspawn Utilizing and Interrupting Policy)-- our policy & advocacy arm engaging COLAGErs in creating and sharing resources and testifying on behalf of our families.COLAGE continues to collaborate with other organizations through events and shared resources to support whole families and uplift rather than duplicate one another's efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.1%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 27.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.1% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $213K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.