Colorado Acacia Fraternity House Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 846035012
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7202750146
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Sororities, Fraternities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,591
- Expenses
- $79,082
- Assets
- $1,017,696
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN KING (President)
People named in this filing
- BENJAMIN KING (President)
- TREVOR JACOBS (Treasurer)
- THOMAS ATCHISON (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary exempt purpose - the organization maintains affordable housing at 955 broadway in boulder, Colorado for students who are members of acacia fraternity. The activity furthers the exempt purpose to support the active chapter in being able to live affordably in boulder, Colorado. The alumni administer the housing allowance and supervises the property. The organization conductes alumni activities to foster relationships among fraternity members. The organization offers scholarships to the active chapter members to help prepare acacia fraternity members to become educated adults ready to achieve their full potential in the affairs of their family, community and world.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization offers scholarships to the active chapter members to prepare acacia fraternity members to be educated adults ready to achieve their full potential in the affairs of their family, community and world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.2%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 54.5%; rating input score 55; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 60%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.87; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.2% of revenue deployed · 66.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 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 26/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.