Collin Gore Memorial Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822434967
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Palm Desert, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6614760450
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,084
- Expenses
- $3,661
- Assets
- $74,503
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donald Gore (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Donald Gore (CEO)
- Daleen Buter (CFO)
- Genelle Gore (Secretary)
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
The Collin Gore Memorial foundation was founded to provide scholarships and funding to organizations that Collin Gore participated in while he was alive. We contribute scholarships to graduating students and needy participants in different groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
1,500 to Hart High School Swim Team leaders as scholarships 1,000 Old Orchard Swim Team donation and 1,000 to Valencia United Methodist Church
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.1%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 27.5%; rating input score 27
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: 74%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.35; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.1% of revenue deployed · 27.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.