Community Radio Project Inc Ksjd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201404425
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Cortez, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9705649727
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $746,393
- Expenses
- $630,416
- Assets
- $1,393,708
- Liabilities
- $186,746
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MADDY BUTCHER (President)
- MIKE CHARITON (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- TOM YODER (Executive Dir.): $65,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community radio project's mission is to inform, entertain and empower the people of the four corners region through news, arts, culture, and public media service.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community radio project operates a 100-seat performance venue in downtown cortez, Colorado called the sunflower theatre. This venue hosts a diversity of events, classes, workshops, public forums, and other offerings that engage, educate, and empower the community. Many events are collaborations with local nonprofit organizations that use the sunflower theatre for fundraising and outreach events. In 2025, classes and workshops centered on teaching performing arts were offered, including improvisational acting and stand-up comedy classes, as well as songwriting and vocal performance workshops. Performance showcases featuring participants in these classes were also provided, as well as several events featuring local youth. The sunflower troupe is a local volunteer theater group that performs plays at the sunflower theatre, and the raven narratives is a program of community radio project that offers live storytelling events at the theater.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.2%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.21; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.2% of revenue deployed · 46.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $292K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.