Colorado Village Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820741818
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7208045264
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,149,931
- Expenses
- $6,790,013
- Assets
- $3,693,678
- Liabilities
- $1,515,554
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA EHINGER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA EHINGER (CEO): $111,775 total reported compensation
- GILBERT CATBAGAN (FINANCE DIRE): $52,403 total reported compensation
- CHAD GENTRY (BOARD CHAIR): $19,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering community, enacting change. Colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing homelessness. We embody radical solutions to homelessness: housing that centers human dignity, empowerment of marginalized voices, and design solutions that are affordable, sustainable and community oriented.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, cvc fully integrated the micro-community model to all sites, including 24/7 staff support, three meals onsite, and a full range of wrap-around supportive services. Cvc operated 3 sites across the denver metro area, served 331 individuals, with 84 individuals moving to positive housing or shelter outcomes. Supportive services include on-site housing- focused and stability-focused case management, peer support specialists, and behavioral health specialists, as well as partnership from over 25 organizations that provide resources, training, and support on-site, ranging from workforce development, to physical and mental healthcare, to digital literacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
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: -10.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $137K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.