Columbine Memorial Foundation
Legal name: Columbine Memorial Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270642811
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Littleton, CO, US
- Phone
- 303.973.1209
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,671
- Expenses
- $10,080
- Assets
- $229,235
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICK TOWNSEND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICK TOWNSEND (PRESIDENT)
- KAREN JONES (VICE PRESIDE)
- LORA KNOWLTON (SECRETARY/TR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To keep the Memorial the place of beauty, peace, reflection and remembrance it was intended to be.
What it reported doing in 2024
The columbine memorial foundation, inc was formed for the purpose of carrying out the maintenance, repair, replacement and improvement needs associated with the permanent columbine memorial located in clement park, littleton, Colorado. The columbine memorial foundation will receive contributions, oversee volunteer maintenance and repair efforts, retain contractors to perform maintenance, repair and replace as necessary, and generally ensure the integrity of the memorial.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.7%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 88.1%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.74; rating input score 96; 96th 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: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 15.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.