Dc Ranch Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860838306
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4805131500
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeowners & Tenants Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,154,748
- Expenses
- $10,111,947
- Assets
- $15,790,476
- Liabilities
- $1,213,259
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DON MATHESON (PRESIDENT)
- IRYNA SUKHOVOLETS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHELE RAY-BRETHOWER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MEGHANN J HILL (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELE RAY-BRETHOWER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $157,904 total reported compensation
- MEGHANN J HILL (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $129,177 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL WELLS (DIR OF FINANCIAL OPERATION): $124,568 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dc ranch association is responsible for the professional management and protection of the community's fiscal and environmental assets. The ranch association delivers high quality and consistent operations in landscape, maintenance, and community patrol and gate access services with an emphasis on resident care and open communication that result in sustained property values and exceptional quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dc ranch provides 24-hour community patrol service, operating 23 gates throughout the community and three patrol vehicles. The dispatch and command center at the west gate and arcadia gate locations are linked to over 100 continuous live video feed cameras monitoring gates, pedestrian underpass crossings and other remote entry points. Community patrol officers interface with scottsdale city police on matters requiring police presence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.6% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $158K · 10 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.