Colorado Rising

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813856346
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
7204994224
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Business and Industry

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,880
Expenses
$38,224
Assets
$283,961

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIDGET WALSH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CAITT MAEVE (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • BRIDGET WALSH (PRESIDENT)
  • DAR-LON CHANG (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Colorado rising is powering a grassroots movement to protect our health, safety, quality of life, and the future of our climate from the harms and impacts of oil and gas operations.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Colorado rising experienced a period of instability during which its financial needs and external pressures outpaced the capacity of its previous executive leadership. During this period, core fundraising and financial planning functions were not developed at the scale required, which contributed to a significant gap between programmatic ambition and available revenue. In response, the board took decisive action to stabilize the organization by changing leadership, strengthening financial controls, rebuilding fundraising infrastructure, and clarifying strategic priorities. The organization is now moving forward with a clearer governance model, stronger management systems, and leadership better matched to its current stage of growth and impact. This transition has been difficult, but it has also been a necessary step in ensuring that the organization can fulfill its mission with integrity, sustainability, and effectiveness.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 63

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -126.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.43; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -54.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 63.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.