Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841128649
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Durango, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9707495663
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,186
- Expenses
- $103,817
- Assets
- $187,157
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Barry Longwell (President)
People named in this filing
- Linda Simmons (Secretary)
- Barry Longwell (President)
- Sherry Colquitt (Board Member Emritus)
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 annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering in October of each year. Poets and musicians go in the schools and senior care facilities and Parade on Saturday of the week of the Gathering as well as hold evening and daytime poetry and music performances. The Gathering board and professional volunteers hold an annual contest in the schools for students to submit art and poetry work. Winners of those contests perform at the Gathering each fall with adult performers.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering had a very successful year in 2025. We were able to re-engage 18 schools in our near by District to teach poetry and art too their students. Over 5,200 students participated in our educational programs throughout the year, and 11 schools participated in our poetry and art contests providing education on the historical west and our western heritage. We held poetry and art contests in the schools and utilized HS students to help judge the contests. In the fall, performers held assemblies at the 18 schools and taught harmonica classes to over 310 5th grade students. Our evening and paid events were very successful as was the Parade and outreach programs to the community. Our two fundraisers were successful as well.
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 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.2%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 43.2%; rating input score 43
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.2% of revenue deployed · 43.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.