Porchlight Friends

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923242563
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Colorado Spgs, CO, USA
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
In-Home Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$112,139
Expenses
$80,827
Assets
$31,312

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelly Peterschmidt (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kelly Peterschmidt (Executive Director)

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

Our mission is to cure loneliness and isolation amongst the older population in our community. Porchlight Friends offers support and assistance to older adults to help them age in place safely and independently in whatever space they call home. These services include in-person interactions assistance with daily tasks online connection to family friends and community services along with easy access to transportation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Porchlight Friends companions assisted older adults with projects in the home light housework and transportation for doctor appointments and errands to the store bank pharmacy. Most importantly our companions provide face-to-face interactions with older adults lasting approximately 2 hours to help battle the loneliness and isolation felt by so many of our older loved ones.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 27.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 108.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.