The Arc Pikes Peak Region
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840530067
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7194714800
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,828,839
- Expenses
- $2,055,614
- Assets
- $9,180,743
- Liabilities
- $1,291,601
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Egan (President)
- April O'Neil (Vice President/Treasurer)
- Wilfred Romero (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Wilfred Romero (Executive Director): $244,006 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 promote and protect the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively support their full inclusion and participation in the communities of the Pikes Peak region throughout their lifetimes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocacy: To advocate for adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in schools, courts and any community setting. Advocates in schools work to support families and educators meet the unique needs of individual students. Advocates identify needs and work as a team to create cooperative plans for successful educational outcomes. A new program outside the schools works to empower families primarily parents to become their students' first and strongest advocate. Families are educated on special education laws and how services are delivered in schools. Advocates work with all people to protect individual civil rights. Advocates take the supported decision-making approach with people that empower them to make good life decisions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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 - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $256.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.3%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.47; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $244K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.