Rockvale Writers' Colony Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830698423
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
College Grove, TN, USA
Phone
6154975322
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,740
Expenses
$38,300
Assets
$143,733
Liabilities
$9,736

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SANDRA COOMER (PRESIDENT/DI)

People named in this filing

  • SANDRA COOMER (PRESIDENT/DI)
  • SHAWN COOMER (SECRETARY/DI)
  • JANET BYERS (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Rockvale writers' colony exists to support, promote, and educate writers of all backgrounds who write in any genre. We aim to provide a safe, comfortable, and inspiring environment where writers can settle in as "writers in residence" to work on a writing project.

What it reported doing in 2025

Rockvale writer's colony (rwc) provides aspiring writers with a distraction-free environment that is necessary for creating intense, focused works. Writers who need a quiet place to work on an upcoming project can stay on the premises (the "colony") as a way to improve an existing work, complete an existing project , or simply to improve overall writing skills. Writers generally stay at the colony between 1-4 weeks, depending on the size of the project and/or the needs of the writer. In addition to offering a peaceful work environment, rwc conducts workshops and genre-specific retreats throughout the year that allow aspiring writers to learn ways to improve their craft. Rwc also has a mentorship program where the writers attending rwc's events can receive focused feedback on the projects they are currently working on. As more funds are raised, rwc intends to continue finding ways to support more and more writers in furthering and improving their craft.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.8%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 79.2%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.9%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.75; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.8% of revenue deployed · 79.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.