Revel
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812022482
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7205340601
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,060,282
- Expenses
- $3,249,562
- Assets
- $749,855
- Liabilities
- $501,335
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE ENGELS (EXECUTIVE DI): $161,360 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Life Without Limits
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, revel served nearly 200 individuals with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) across eight Colorado counties. Our programs focused on fostering social engagement, encouraging community exploration, and building essential life skills. We also expanded our impact beyond direct services: delivering 11 neurodiversity in the workplace trainings to over 900 participants, and forging 25 new employer partnerships to advance inclusive employment opportunities. To meet growing demand, we grew our staff capacity by 23%, strengthening our ability to serve the community and deepen our impact. Our grant-funded mental health program supported individuals in developing coping strategies and social skills, while also equipping staff with new clinical tools and a deeper understanding of the intersection of autism and mental health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 22nd 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: Fail
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $161K · 12 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $285K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.