Plains Conservation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841009399
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039633621
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,000
- Expenses
- $10,253
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON CHAN (CHAIR & PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JASON CHAN (CHAIR & PRESIDENT)
- JASON KNOLL (TREASURER)
- ROBERT APPLEGATE (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The pcc exists to bring the natural wonder of the prairie into the realm of personal experience.
What it reported doing in 2018
The plains conservation center (the organization) manages over 1,100 acres of shortgrass prairie leased from the city of aurora, Colorado, as well as more than 8,900 acres along the bijou creek in the Colorado counties of arapahoe and elbert. Effective january 1, 2016, the organization transferred all management and operations of its educational programs to the denver botanic gardens (dbt). Dbt assumed all responsibilities related to marketing, pricing, hiring, and managing, all educational activities previously done by the organization. The organization entered into an asset transfer agreement with the savory institute.org, inc. A 501(c)(3) corporation. Under this agreement, the organization transfered essentially all of its assets, agreements, and related liabilities to the institute with the institute taking over all operating activities of the plains conservation center.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -44.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.