Sober Apartment Living CO
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824950153
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7204325621
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,969,369
- Expenses
- $2,260,201
- Assets
- $15,266,893
- Liabilities
- $13,368,833
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRAIG ZOELLNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / TREASURER)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF LOVILL (VICE CHAIRMAN / SECRETARY): $36,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of sober apartment living, co. Is to provide the lifestyle, support, and resources for a successful transition from addiction recovery to an independent life of sobriety, contentment, and productivity, thus creating an embracing community where individuals are not just surviving but thriving.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sober apartment living, co. (sal) was founded upon the premise that individuals who have successfully completed a rehabilitation program improve their odds of achieving lasting drug and/or alcohol recovery by transitioning to an intensely supportive sober living environment, one that looks and feels like the "real world." sal is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides this exact solution: independent-living apartment complexes complemented with an array of support resources. Our affordable apartment-style, sober-living setting not only allows residents to gain strength, confidence, and conviction to overcome their daily challenges, but sal also helps prepare them for lifelong sobriety. Sal is designed to provide onsite assistance and support to help those in recovery reduce the potential for relapse, including assistance with job placement and career development. Although we are not a rehab, therapy program, or clinical service provider, we understand that sustained sobriety is a journey. We appreciate the trust our residents and their therapists, healthcare providers, and friends and family members put in us to support this worthy pursuit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $36.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.75; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.