Fort Collins Community Action Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841575562
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone
9704198944
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Personal Social Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$380,164
Expenses
$197,687
Assets
$186,724
Liabilities
$5,174

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Caridad Souza (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • San Valdez Burch (Director): $59,011 total reported compensation
  • Jesus Castro Gonzalez (Council Representative): $20,310 total reported compensation
  • Caridad Souza (President): $6,300 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

FCCAN's mission is to create community based on furthering economic, social, and environmental justice, sustainability, human rights, and peace for all by building coalitions, developing strategies and actions, and supporting existing organizations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program Services outlined on Schedule O. Neighborhood Block Party Community Impact Center in August 2025. Collaboration with United Way of Larimer County. We helped fund and create the event by capturing story telling by community members along with cultural performances, catered Jamaican food and an instrumental garden: $11,600. Dia de los Muertos. Community event with BIPOC Alliance and Fuerza Laina. We brought together performers from throughout Colorado to bring our community together to celebrate each other's traditions during Dia de los Muertos: $5,085. HWFP. We continue our support of the Hispanic Women's Farming Projeco created to help our local immigrant women's farming project. We helped to sponsor a grant in 2025 so that they could train and onboard a dedicated employee: $15,606. BIPOC Alliance Market. Every month from April to December we helped to sponsor a market for the black, indigenous, API, Latinx community members to come and sell their crafts to the Fort Collins community. This supported the vendors and promoted outdoor events: $1,680. Lunar New Year Event. A celebration of the Lunar New Year outdoor event with healing exercise and shared food: $2,500. Other Programs, meetings, events, administration activities, office expenses and payroll expenses $127,431.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $198K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.