Conflux Colearning Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850535424
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3145011866
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,842
- Expenses
- $89,130
- Assets
- $162
- Liabilities
- $39,305
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- BRANDON DEMPSEY (CHAIR)
- DEREK WEBER (PARTNER)
- COURTNEY HERZING (DIRECTOR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, with the purpose of fostering collaboration and innovation within the st. Louis community. Our mission is to build a connected ecosystem where businesses, professionals, and organizations can exchange knowledge and resources, driving economic growth and community development. By providing educational programs, facilitating partnerships, and hosting events, we aim to strengthen the regional economy and enhance collaborative efforts that benefit the public good.
What it reported doing in 2025
Industry education and community engagement: conflux hosted four large-scale educational events in 2025, highlighted by the 2025 industrial readiness summit. This event brought together manufacturers, educators, and government leaders for cross-sector collaborative problem-solving focused on the challenges and opportunities facing st. Louis's industrial sector. Additional programming served professionals across a range of industries, supporting peer-driven problem-solving, leadership growth, and business development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 242.62; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -105.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.