Dcso Explorer Post 10-4
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453637121
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3038147004
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Citizenship
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,395
- Expenses
- $10,268
- Assets
- $18,100
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- DAN PALERMO (ADVISOR)
- LORI BRONNER (ADVISOR)
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
The dcso explorer post is a support service to the sheriff's office. The post seeks to give youth of the community opportunities to learn about law enforcement, leadership and self-initiative.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational activities benefiting the explorer by providing a positive learning experience related to law enforcement, government, or citizenship. Educational activities my include: explorer academies; explorer post meetings; conferences; field trips/team buiding exercises; ride-along/work programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.