Community Uplift Partnership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464034020
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Commerce City, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7203897586
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $857,338
- Expenses
- $883,800
- Assets
- $106,459
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Laird (President)
- Paul Regelado (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Chris Churches (Executive Dir.): $58,410 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We strengthen young adults to overcome obstacles and challenges that limit them.
What it reported doing in 2025
CUP served over 100 students directly in 2025, and many more indirectly. We offered four Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) classes to over 80 students and had many more in our Beyond the Job Program. Students worked alongside wise and kind mentors in Beyond and learned everything from how to write a resume and interview skills to financial literacy and mental health awareness in YEP. Over 90% of students who started with us graduated from YEP and Beyond successfully. 100% of students at CUP worked with said they feel better prepared for adulthood. Many students leveled up to a living wage job, college, or made a lateral move but brought with them tools needed to change their next atmosphere. The main tools that we taught were the following. How to have a crucial conversation and using this tool instead of flight or fight or freeze, assuming the best in others and leading with kindness, mining for information and researching instead of making rash decisions and forgiveness. These personal and interpersonal skills paired with the hard skills of making a budget and writing a resume and having interview skills has helped all the students to launch into adulthood with success.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $823K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.