ENGLEWOOD DEPOT INC Aka Letterpress Depot

What it reported doing in 2024

Demonstrations to introduce book arts, printing, historic information and our available resources continued with multiple events in 2024. A STEM printing event included hands-on engagement with students at Cherrelyn Elementary, and twice at Cherry Creek High School at their Fine Arts Fridays. At The Finest High School of Choice in Englewood students used our wood type and press to produce a series of Wanted Posters. Other Englewood hands-on printing took us to Belleview Park, to the Spring Market, the Englewood Block Party, and the Englewood Holiday Fair. We brought our presses out for the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show and for the annual Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair. Individual workshops and printing projects were done at nearby printshops, including a session with the Postcard Club of Denver, and a group workshop at the Book Arts League in Boulder. Seasonal cards, wedding invitations, poetry, broadsides, and other small press projects have been hand-set and printed by traditional methods. Individual advice and discussion have been available online and by phone, including research access and scanning materials from our collection of historic amateur journalism. A major regional biannual event - the Month of Printmaking - included a Print Jam at the Arvada Center, where we participated with four kinds of tabletop presses, including Lego printing, a mini etching press printing Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, and production of a series of botanical studies from Colorado Agricultural College in the 1920s printed on our tabletop Adana press. Letterpress Depot also participated in the MoPrint Open Studio days, and the Small Press Fest gathering. With woodblock artist Michael Keyes we produced a broadside poster for a MoPrint show in Arvada. Another major event combined our printing expertise with demonstrations and presentations at the international How Design conference held in Denver in 2024. We moved our historic 1800 pound Washington style hand press to the conference for hands-on demonstrations: we printed and distributed broadside posters with an image of the press, using hand-set wood type and photopolymer printing processes. For another area of our program services we continued investment in Zoom meeting resources for Board meetings and discussions, and for expanded online projects, education and sharing of our work on our website and on social media with a larger online public. In 2024 we focused on improvements for our web and social media presence with a board review Tech Audit. We are actively involved nationally and internationally in an expanding online letterpress and bookarts community.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.68; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 49.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings