Collier Community Foundation
Legal name: Collier Community Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592396243
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Naples, Florida, USA
- Phone
- (239) 649.5000
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,669,117
- Expenses
- $33,997,342
- Assets
- $349,178,213
- Liabilities
- $8,134,568
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EILEEN CONNOLLY-KEESLER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- EILEEN CONNOLLY-KEESLER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $393,961 total reported compensation
- WENDY PONTING (CFO): $217,379 total reported compensation
- LINDSEY TOUCHETTE (VP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT): $191,639 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the quality of life in Collier County by promoting philanthropy, connecting donors with community needs, and providing leadership on critical issues.
What it reported doing in 2024
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $63.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 95%; rating input score 95; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Pass
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 66.6%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.27; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $31.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $394K · 23 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 44 of 46 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 299 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 294 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.