Colorado Center for Nursing Excelle

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320022295
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
3037150343
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,398,535
Expenses
$3,308,709
Assets
$5,685,410
Liabilities
$3,081,055

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • INGRID JOHNSON DNP MPP RN (CEO AND PRES)

Highest reported compensation

  • INGRID JOHNSON DNP MPP RN (CEO AND PRES): $192,798 total reported compensation
  • DEBORAH CENTER (CHIEF PROG O): $179,597 total reported compensation
  • CHRIS ROBERTSON BA (CBO): $166,405 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Building on a foundation of evidence, the center advocates for and provides professional education, leadership development, coaching and data analysis to continually strengthen the nursing and healthcare workforce. Our defining strategy is to convene and engage the right people at the right time to develop and implement solutions to emerging healthcare challenges.

What it reported doing in 2025

Nurse refresher the Colorado center for nursing excellence offers nurse refresher courses for rns and lpns who are either looking to update their clinical skills or have let their license lapse and want to apply for relicensure in their state. All students entering the program are provided the opportunity of a virtual learning program (novex) which measures and reinforces clinical judgement and critical thinking skills. The program is set up in a learning in place format until students are ready to move to an in-person clinical education experience in preparation for their return to work. The program is approved by state boards of nursing in 17 states and offers versions that are shorter in length(light) for those needing less professional development and have been out of the workforce for 2 years or less. The longer versions are for rns and lpns who are looking to relicense or have been out of the workforce for more than 2 years. The full rn relicensure program takes 9 months to complete and requires both virtual and in person clinical learning opportunities. Clinical scholars the clinical scholar professional development program serves nurses working in a clinical setting who will be supporting students coming into their facilities from a variety of schools of nursing. It is a clinical education platform that allows facilities to work closely with schools of nursing to provide needed clinical oversight to support the clinical education of the next generation of registered nurses, negating the need for added clinical faculty from the schools to be present. Upon completion of the program the clinical scholar works directly with the students in their facility and the clinical faculty from the schools to report on student success or the need for additional support for a student. The education is a 40-hour in-depth synchronous program that is offered three times a year in a virtual format. The clinical scholars program has been serving Colorado and surrounding states since 2005.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 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: 2.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $193K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.