Hcu Education Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472008663
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
7205883737
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Behavioral Science

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,509
Expenses
$103,287
Assets
$4,905
Liabilities
$81,210

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Martha Montemayor (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Martha Montemayor (Executive Director)
  • Mary Carniglia (Secretary)
  • Donald Cooper (Research Advisor)

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

Furthering the science of natural medicines through education, research, and best practices for clinicians.

What it reported doing in 2025

Launched natural medicines services to compliment cannabis education services, in compliance with Colorado Natural Medicines Act 2023. Offered services through private member association to assure state compliance. Registered 125 new members to group with expanded services. Continued participation with several boards including marijuana and natural medicine rulemaking for physicians with the Colorado Natural Medicine Advisory Board, Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, and Colorado Board of Health. Expanded education targets to include newly authorized natural medicine facilitators. Conducted Microdose Safety Brain Scan Pilot Study for Colorado Natural Medicine Advisory Board April 2024. Presented Continuing Education in psychedelic neuroscience to over 460 attendees at PsyCon conference in October, 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 71.5%; rating input score 72

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 16.56; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 90.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 74% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.