Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833584908
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- La Veta, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3252347595
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,996
- Expenses
- $215,561
- Assets
- $74,625
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Craig Yenzer (President)
- Brad Snow (Vice President)
- Lisa Garrison (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Craig Yenzer (President)
- Brad Snow (Vice President)
- Sherri Jones (Secretary/Treasurer)
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
The mission of the Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection is to collaboratively protect the Spanish Peaks area of Colorado, the wildlife, and precious water resources from the impact of destructive fire events. Our objectives are to use a Master Plan to identify critical areas of mitigation, education of the public, secure funding for training and professional expertise and to secure matching grants for property and homeowners to create defensible space. In addition, we collaborate with county, state, and federal agencies to obtain funding to mitigate wildfire risks, protect watersheds, protect wildlife, create healthy forests, and evaluate risks to evacuation routes to permit safe evacuation in case of wildfire.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through the Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation (FRWRM) grant, administered by the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), our organization was able to assist with one-to-one matching funding for community-level actions to reduce risk to people, property, and infrastructure from wildfire. Specifically, helping landowners to recover approved expenses incurred to mitigate areas on land targeted as wildfire risk. Total persons benefited 350.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 57.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $186K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.