Colorado Christian Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840597782
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037617236
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $817,881
- Expenses
- $832,285
- Assets
- $1,294,583
- Liabilities
- $40,685
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK SOLOMON (President)
- LINDSAY MCBRIDE (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH BOLZ (Executive Dir.): $109,264 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Colorado christian services comes alongside women in unplanned pregnancies and christian adoptive couples, in building families through caring, experienced and professional adoption planning services. In addition, our community resource room is open to our clients and the general public. Women and families can come in and "shop" in our boutique-style store at no cost to them. Our community resource room is fully stocked with new and gently used donated items.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Colorado christian services served 85 birth parents and there were 105 birth parent visits. Colorado christian services provides free services to any pregnant woman, regardless of age, race, or religion. Our capable staff offers professional counseling and emotional support, as well as referrals for medical care, housing, food, and clothing. Depending on the birth mother's situation, we may also provide pregnancy-related financial help toward meeting medical and/or living expenses. For the birth mother deciding to parent, we offer parenting skills counseling. Should a client choose to place her child in a loving christian home, we offer full adoption services.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $682K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.