Colorado Springs Leadership Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261291084
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7194877870
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,197
- Expenses
- $171,112
- Assets
- $158,295
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- Bill Nelson (Director)
- Adrienne Tuck (Chairman)
- Renee Behr (Director)
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
CSLI accomplishes its goal primarily through its annual 5 day CSLI Leadership Development Program for a select group of community leaders. The program is held at the Center for Creative Leadership. Each year 16 individuals complete this training. CSLI provides continuing leadership training through its regular programs held for its alumni. These programs typically include a training time, networking and a reception. CSLI provides an annual programming for alumni that provides a further opportunity for training in leadership enhancement and community advancement.
What it reported doing in 2025
See Schedule O
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.7%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.7% of revenue deployed · 36.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.