Colorado Student Media Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900656577
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,248
- Expenses
- $54,546
- Assets
- $181,496
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anastasia Harrison (President)
- Karla Shotts (Vice President)
- Patrick Moring (Pat President)
- Jed Palmer (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Anastasia Harrison (President)
- Karla Shotts (Vice President)
- Patrick Moring (Pat President)
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
To support student journalism in Colorado
What it reported doing in 2025
Contest judging administration website portal for entries - about 1000 students earned recognition in our individual contests and 91 student media received critiques for work from the 2023-24 school year
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 33
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19% of revenue deployed · 32.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.