Poudre Heritage Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364507550
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Windsor, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9702954851
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $674,545
- Expenses
- $611,458
- Assets
- $660,301
- Liabilities
- $118,809
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SABRINA STOKER (EXECUTIVE DI): $125,619 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build a deeper understanding of the cache la poudre river's national significance in influencing water development, law, and management, through interpretative and educational programming and media.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational & interpretive programming learning in our watershed (liow) was designed with a simple mission: to help youth understand and value the cache la poudre river and their water heritage while inspiring a next generation of river stewards. In 2025, 8,086 students participated in liow field trips within the national heritage area. Community outreach: 23,044 people participated in heritage area events and activities including the poudre pub talk series held at local breweries, riverfest, the poudre river forum, and other activities such as bike to work day and the native see and plant event. Community grants: the nha distributed over 30,000 in grant funds to community projects that support the preservation, interpretation, and development of heritage area resources and amenities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $93.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87.3%; rating input score 87; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $497K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.