Sangre De Cristo Volunteers for Community Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264297819
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Colorado City, CO, USA
Phone
7196761011
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,250
Expenses
$60,762
Assets
$599,429
Liabilities
$148,150

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Judith Patrick (President)

People named in this filing

  • Judith Patrick (President)
  • Harry Hochstetler (Director)
  • Robert Johnson (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Enrich lives and celebrate nature in southern Colorado

What it reported doing in 2024

Volunteers operate a once-a-month free pantry where clients are given a large box to fill with non-perishable foods, fresh produce, and household/personal items. The pantry also provides vouchers for bread and eggs from the only full-service grocery store within a 25-mile radius. Clients are required to provide their name and number of persons in their household, as required by Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado, where a portion of the pantrys food is purchased or provided free of charge. Monetary donations, collected during monthly food collections, are also used to purchase food and other items not available at Care & Share. The pantry is the only one in the community which does not require recipients to income-qualify, which it is able to do because no federal or state funds have been requested for this project. Recipient numbers average 40 households per month. In January, 2023 VFC partnered with Care and Share to bring a monthly mobile food pantry to Colorado City. Recipients fill a large bag with fresh fruits, vegetables and other food items that volunteers arrange on shelves on one side of a large truck after retrieving them from the storage side of the truck. This mobile pantry is a nice complement to the other pantry and has been very well received in the community. An average of 50 families per month are served by this mobile pantry

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% 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 and most voting board members are independent. 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: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.8%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 35.6%; rating input score 36
  • Fundraising efficiency: $672.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -63.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.87; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.8% of revenue deployed · 35.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.