Denver Trout Unlimited
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510225099
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,284
- Expenses
- $73,019
- Assets
- $144,647
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sam VonCannon (President)
- Rick Mikesell (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sam VonCannon (President)
- Rick Mikesell (Vice President)
- Joe Zell (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Denver chapters vision is for the Denver South Platte from Chatfield Dam to 120th Avenue to become a healthy urban river with a multi-species gamefish fishery.
What it reported doing in 2025
Denver Trout Unlimited conducts conservation monitoring and public-education initiatives focused on the Denver reach of the South Platte River and its tributaries. Activities include assessing urban water-quality and habitat conditions monitoring and removing trash and debris before it enters the river organizing volunteer cleanups and stewardship events coordinating with local governments and nonprofit partners and educating the public about coldwater fisheries watershed health and pollution prevention. These efforts are intended to protect aquatic habitat improve the ecological condition of the South Platte River system and engage the community in long-term conservation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 65; 65th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.6% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 26 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.