Friends of Paha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 481298692
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lakewood, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039877612
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,662
- Expenses
- $50,113
- Assets
- $141,815
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marlana Bense (President)
People named in this filing
- Marlana Bense (President)
- Cece Litherland (Secretary)
- William Cooper (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Friends of Paha raises funds to support Camp Paha, providing financial assistance and program support to ensure children, youth, and young adults with disabilities have access to inclusive recreational and developmental camp experiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided financial assistance (camperships) to children and young adults with disabilities to attend Camp Paha, reducing financial barriers and increasing access to inclusive camp experiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.83; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.