Colorado Friendship Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Incredibles.this program provides bags of non-perishable food to food- insecure school children every friday, delivered directly to them at school. These children receive school meals while at school but might have little or no food at home over the weekend. This food helps to fill that gap so the children can return to school on monday morning ready to learn. We distributed 20,150 bags of food in 2025. We serve 650 children per week, at 12 schools each week during the school year. We continue to include high nutrition items in our bags such as tuna fish, beef jerky, peanuts, canned fruits, vegetables, milk boxes and peanut butter. The schools have requested that all items be non-perishable, single serving and easy to open and prepare so kids can do it themselves. We are constantly working to find products that fit these descriptions while providing good nutrition at a reasonable price. We are very happy to be partnering with "beef sticks for backpacks" who are providing us with 3,000 donated high quality beef sticks every month for our food bags. We also partner with conscious alliance for donated food items. At the end of 2025 we hels a very successful food drive at sam's club where we collected 23,000 in food items to help with our food bags in 2026. These are the schools we are currently serving in svvsd: indian peaks elementary school - 100 bags, timberline k-8 - 50 bags, rocky mountain elementary school - 75 bags, mountain view elementary school - 70 bags, burlington elementary school - 40 bags, columbine elementary school - 77 bags, northridge elementary school - 60 bags, fall river elementary school - 40 bags, alpine elementary school - 52 bags, mead elementary school - 40 bags, sandborn elementary school - 16 bags, and main street - 30 bags. The total equals 650 bags per week volunteers numbered 179 and total volunteer hours were 1,158.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
• Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $14.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: 4.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings