Energy Conservation Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271494651
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013
- Location
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7203777122
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $250,265
- Expenses
- $244,939
- Assets
- $2,908
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Patrick Smith (Director): $95,200 total reported compensation
- Jessica Cranson (Treasurer): $35,301 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Public service to homeowners who have a need or desire to make their homes more energy efficient. Our primary goal is to educate homeowners with energy savings tips, directing them to an educational source or gaining permission for one of our referral list members to contact them for the purpose of assisting them with a specific energy saving home improvement project.
What it reported doing in 2013
Informing homeowners of tiered billing used to calculate energy bills by the energy provider during the summer months primarily from Memorial day through Labor day. Guiding homeowners to informational, resourceful and reliable web sites with regard to energy efficiency, tax credits and rebates (if any) to help them reduce energy consumption in the household while at the same time saving money on utility bills. Helping homeowners understand the importance of Energy Assessments also known as Energy Audits for the purpose of education and setting priorities for home improvement projects. This allows homeowners the ability to prioritize energy projects based on energy loss and what they could afford to invest and save the most energy in order from most important to least important.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.3%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 53.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -52.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.3% of revenue deployed · 48.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2011 to 2013
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.