El Puente the Bridge

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 845065872
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Breckenridge, CO, USA
Phone: 9703894327
Rating: 52
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue: $84,340
Expenses: $83,871
Assets: $73,501

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Mery Cecchi (President of Board)

People named in this filing

Kent Gledhill (Director)
Derek Quiros (Manager)
Mery Cecchi (President of Board)

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

Meeting community needs of education and food.

What it reported doing in 2025

The School Program helped over 300 students get the supplies and backpacks needed to attend school

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - 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: 28
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 35
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 28.5%; rating input score 28
Program expense ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 29

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 61.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 28.5% of revenue deployed · 28.6% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.