Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841182130
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037569052
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,857,319
- Expenses
- $2,747,006
- Assets
- $1,878,539
- Liabilities
- $494,396
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNTHIA ROMERO (INTERIM CEO)
- JEFFERY BUSTAMANTE PFD MHI (CEO)
- DEMETRIUS PARKER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CYNTHIA ROMERO (INTERIM CEO): $135,234 total reported compensation
- JEFFERY BUSTAMANTE PFD MHI (CEO): $73,841 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Maria droste services of Colorado improves lives by providing high quality counseling services to adults, children and families, regardless of their ability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our survivors mental health program provides mental health counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation to survivors of trauma, including sexual assault, childhood physical abuse, and domestic violence. The goals of our survivors mental health program are to: 1. Provide financially accessible, culturally competent, and comprehensive care to survivors of trauma with serious mental health concerns 2. To eliminate or significantly reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms over time 3. To achieve high ratings of client satisfaction 4. And serve as a resource to other community victim service providers regarding mental health issues for survivors of violence this program specifically focuses on providing support to survivors of trauma who are uninsured, underinsured, have unaffordable annual deductibles or copays, do not have medicare or medicaid, are ineligible for crime victim compensation, or are otherwise unable to afford the cost of services. Smhp prevents individuals from falling through the cracks of the existing mental health and victim services systems and is designed specifically to address post-traumatic stress, severe depression, anxiety, addiction, and suicidal impulses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.5%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.