Friends of Manual
Legal name: Friends of Manual High School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841520225
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- Phone
- 7204236300
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,034
- Expenses
- $104,806
- Assets
- $270,717
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARY SALSICH (BOARD CHAIR)
- CAROL FLOWERS (SECRETARY)
- BLAKE JOHNSON (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support Manual High School students by funding faculty grants, extra-curricular activities, essential elective classes, and innovative and career-focused academic programs, helping students receive the academic, social, psychological and emotional support needed to succeed in post-secondary education or career.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization seeks to provide resources to enhance the educational experience for students at manual high school in denver, Colorado. We raise funds and recruit volunteers to provide essential elective classes, innovative and career-focused academic programs, faculty grants, and extracurricular activities. During the 2024-25 school year, our main program grants were to teachers, scholarships, and athletics. Total program grants during the 2024-2025 school year were 92,035.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.58; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 15 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.