DC Ranch
Legal name: Dc Ranch Community Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860838307
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- (480) 367-1100
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeowners & Tenants Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,661,735
- Expenses
- $13,209,791
- Assets
- $8,600,548
- Liabilities
- $1,851,669
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH KEPURAITIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ETHAN KNOWLDEN (PRESIDENT)
- JENNA KOHL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNA KOHL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $272,050 total reported compensation
- JONA DAVIS (DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGA): $169,516 total reported compensation
- DEE NORTMAN (DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL OPER): $158,055 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance the quality of life for DC Ranch residents through community management, covenant enforcement, and lifestyle programming.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2023, community council operated two community centers and maintained over 50 miles of paths and trails connecting residents to the village core and the mcdowell mountain preserve. Council produced over 50 unique programs and events, continued the resident leadership academy, volunteer appreciation celebration and dc ranch gives group service projects. Year-round communications to dc ranch residents include ranch news, this week on the ranch, ranch roundup and the website.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 63rd 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: -72.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $272K · 11 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.