Grassroots Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841251403
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Joes, CO, USA
Phone
9703584371
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Neighborhood Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,169
Expenses
$98,028
Assets
$326,487
Liabilities
$165

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDY DIBLE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ANDY DIBLE (PRESIDENT)
  • LENORA WINSLOW (VICE PRESIDE)
  • ALICIA SEARS (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

Grassroots foundation provides a community center and park where individuals, groups and organizations can convene to engage in social and recreational opportunities, health maintenance and prevention activities, and educational and cultural endeavors as determined by ongoing community needs assessments. The overal goals of grassroots are to bring recreational facilities to a rural area, to encourage new people to come here and for current residents to stay in a depopulating area.

What it reported doing in 2025

The liberty rural learning cooperative (lrlc) initiates civically connected art projects that build conversations, support multi-cultural understanding and amplify knowledge exchange within the high plains region. Lrlc, founded in 2016, has brough various dynamic place-based applied rural arts programs to over seven highschools in northeast Colorado. The applied rural arts program is centered around three main topics; the study of cultural heritage and local traditions found int he american high plains region; communal and cooperative education practice and skills-based learning and vocational training. Grassroots foundation has made a strong rebound post covide with impactful engagement. The meadowland market at prairie futures regenerative agricultural community garden supported local vendors; exapnded cutltural programming with live music, writing and weaving activities and successfully brough the community together in celebration and economic activation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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

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 assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98

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: -15.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • 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 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.