Roundup Fellowship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840643724
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037578008
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,003,866
- Expenses
- $12,213,657
- Assets
- $8,486,831
- Liabilities
- $3,495,221
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONNA THURSTON (CEO, PRESIDE)
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA THURSTON (CEO, PRESIDE): $160,410 total reported compensation
- JOHN SHEPHERD (CFO, TREAS.,): $143,569 total reported compensation
- LYNETTE JOHNSON (COO): $131,956 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 inspire and empower people to thrive with customized support that meets the unique needs of each person, family, and community, one step at a time.
What it reported doing in 2025
The roundup school and day treatment program was developed for dual diagnosed students who experience difficulties in more traditional school settings. We offer a therapeutic, small group setting where students receive individualized attention. We help students feel safe, develop relationships, and develop academic and community skills. Our curriculum is individualized in all subject areas, social skills, life skills, behavior management, emotional regulation, community integration, and vocational training. We also offer a transition program for students who have graduated from high school as they are launching into adulthood.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $160K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $837K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.