Richards Rubbish Roundup
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992278835
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Colorado Spgs, CO, USA
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,285
- Expenses
- $58,014
- Assets
- $17,097
- Liabilities
- $826
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sonja Walker (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Richard Skorman (Founder)
- Sonja Walker (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We keep the City of Colorado Springs and its rivers and creeks clean by organizing volunteers for weekly litter pickups participating in larger cleanup events sponsored by the city and other local organizations educating community members about the importance of keeping our waterways free of trash training other groups on how to have their own pickups safely and providing supplies and gear to other groups who want to hold their own cleanups.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 our volunteers picked up 1,004 bags of trash which is approximately 29,160 pounds of trash based on an estimate of 30 pounds per bag. They spent 1,106 hours cleaning up our parks trails creeks and rivers. They safely collected and disposed of 1,191 used and discarded hypodermic needles. Our objective is to keep our city clean and safe for its citizens and visitors by safely disposing of potentially dangerous waste - especially used hypodermic needles which can cause life-threatening diseases if stepped on or accidentally grabbed by people recreating in the area. We are also accomplishing another goal of keeping trash and particularly plastic out of our waterways thereby preventing toxic chemicals and microplastics from entering not only our water supply but also that of cities and towns downstream from us. In the process of fulfilling these goals we maintain the incredible beauty of the city in which we live.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.2%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 41
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: 21.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.2% of revenue deployed · 41.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.