Scientific & Cultural Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205633498
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039462089
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $452,635
- Expenses
- $580,569
- Assets
- $401,364
- Liabilities
- $53,416
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JANNETT MATUSIAK (EXECUTIVE DI): $97,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Scc empowers scientific and cultural organizations through collaboration and capacity-building for the benefit of the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pathways - each full member organization has funding to assist schools, senior centers, libraries, and other groups to participate in cultural activities. In 2024-25, pathways served 35,461 students and 6,749 adults through 397 programs. Community database - all members of the organization have the opportunity to efficiently manage their own contact information for their patrons (single ticket buyers, subscribers, volunteers, members and donors), share lists with other cultural organizations and be able to research patron households for marketing campaigns. Target resource group (trg) is contracted to manage the collection and use of the data. Online directory of educational activities for teachers and schools - explorable places.com is national online platform that all collaborative member organizations participate in by listing their business profile and education programs. Parents and teachers can access this free platform to find curriculum-based programs from cultural organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 88.6%; rating input score 89; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $501K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 33 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.