Exceptional Kids Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841585816
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Centennial, CO, USA
Phone
3032213222
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,314,464
Expenses
$12,266,673
Assets
$9,171,577
Liabilities
$3,863,788

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ken Ziel (CEO and Director)
  • Katie Dockery (Vice President Business Development)
  • Chris Vasquez (Vice President Residential Services)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ken Ziel (CEO and Director): $133,469 total reported compensation
  • Katie Dockery (Vice President Business Development): $115,173 total reported compensation
  • Chris Vasquez (Vice President Residential Services): $108,156 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide high quality educational, vocational, recreational and residential services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Adult enrichment services that occur Monday through Friday throughout the year at our program facilities. The program provides educational, vocational, and recreational programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program is funded primarily through Medicaid reimbursements for services rendered and to a lesser extent individual financial contributions and grants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.6% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.