Colorado Golf Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841248840
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Greenwood Village, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3033664653
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,547,979
- Expenses
- $6,101,454
- Assets
- $10,001,228
- Liabilities
- $838,158
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD MATE (CEO)
- SARA SILVA MONTGOMERY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD MATE (CEO): $251,641 total reported compensation
- RYAN SMITH (CDO): $146,945 total reported compensation
- JOE MCCLEARY (CSO): $142,334 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Colorado golf association, inc. ("association") is to make golf and all it offers available to everyone.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cga conducted state championships, usga qualifiers, and assisted at numerous other tournaments and championships for golf entrants. Cga conducted 25 state amateur golf championships and corresponding qualifiers as well as 20 usga qualifiers. The cga also supports the Colorado open and women's Colorado open events at green valley ranch gc, the rocky mountain open, and chsaa championships. The cga conducts the state junior championships and state travel teams were identified to compete in junior americas cup and pacific coast am competitions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 61.9%; rating input score 62; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 6.8%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.3% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- 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 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.