Cyber Defense Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880950608
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO, USA
- Phone
- 8003813365
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,881
- Expenses
- $50,320
- Assets
- $411,695
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Erin Owens (Chair)
- Robin Owens (Treasurer)
- Rob Davis (Secretary)
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
The Cyber Defense Center is a not-for-profit charity organization with a mission of improving collective cyber defense for community protection We focus on workforce development with a purpose through our ACSEBD program and community outreach and mutual aid through our DEFEND program The Cyber Defense Center believes in the transformatative POWER OF PEOPLE In cyber defense Our mission is to uplift and upskill this critical workforce and provision these advanced COLLECTIVE DEFENSE resources for underserved communities The Cyber defense Center also performs essential industry research We believe cyber defense should be built on openness ethics and community Therefore our research exists not to serve narrow interests but to uplift society and secure the technologies we all depend on As a core tenet of our research the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER stays future focused We are not just defending todays networks we are shaping tomorrows cyber defense
What it reported doing in 2024
DEFEND GridSim gridsimorg electricity subsector program initiated Partnering with DOE National Lab NREL to build first electricity subsector simulation outside of a National Lab for training threat and defense modeling and testing purposes
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for member benefits.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.1%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 19
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: 52.9%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.18; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -116.2% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.1% of revenue deployed · 19.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.