Colorado Tree Coalition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841296647
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7206246555
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,636
- Expenses
- $105,787
- Assets
- $252,637
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Neal Bamesberger (President)
- Evan Anderson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dave Flaig (Treasurer)
- Kamie Long (Board Member)
- Carrie Tomlinson (Executive Admin)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Colorado tree coalition (ctc) is leading statewide efforts topreserve, renew and enhance community forests in Colorado. This mission isaccomplished through the efforts of dedicated members and volunteers who work onprograms in the following areas: community forestry grants; champion trees; community forestry educational events; reforest Colorado; arbor day poster contest; tree risk assessment; select tree evaluations and trees across Colorado.
What it reported doing in 2024
The trees across Colorado program distributed 3073 trees to 31 groups & communities in april. The tree list included 43 different species of shade trees.the ctc awarded 18 community grants with 14 projects completed totaling $49,858 in grant funds. This included four xcel foundation grants.the champion tree program maintained and updated a database of the largest trees by species, in the state with 804 trees listed by year end. Oliver georgiades, a fifth grader from renaissance elementary school in castle rock was selected as the winner of the 2024 Colorado arbor day poster contest. 33 schools from across the state submitted entries. Our community education events included six front range urban forestry council meetings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $88.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 20.4%; rating input score 20; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -104.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 21 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 20/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.