Denver East Forensic Team Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841557372
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7202440200
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $295,704
- Expenses
- $265,195
- Assets
- $197,376
- Liabilities
- $28,647
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE ANDREWS (PRESIDENT)
- ANNA KAYE (VICE-PRESIDENT & SECRETARY)
- DEBORAH VOSS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JULIE ANDREWS (PRESIDENT)
- ANNA KAYE (VICE-PRESIDENT & SECRETARY)
- AMY DECAMILLIS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides strategic oversight, leadership accountability, fiscal management, and collaborative coaching for the teacher-directors who instruct and manage seven different performing arts programs at east high school in denver. Afe also serves these arts programs at east through its 501(c)3 status by providing a repository and distribution process for extracurricular funds for each program. Individual programs continue to assist high school students and parents with training, coaching and fundraising processes and efforts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ec: the east choir program includes 140 students and involves 6 different ensembles-beginning soprano/alto choir, mixed choir, seraphim, honors choir, angelaires and a cappella. Our performances included cabaret, winter concert, nursing home performances, arranging projects nights, middle school recruitment tour, angelaires at dazzle, pop show, greeley jazz festival and the spring concert. The performances sold approximately 2500 tickets and multiple students are going on to major or minor in music in college. We also continued our voice lesson program which served 15 students during class time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 11 filed program accomplishments · $239K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.