The Center for Relationship Educati
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470944920
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Greenwood Village, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7204888888
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Reproductive Health Care Facilities and Allied Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,506,183
- Expenses
- $3,508,005
- Assets
- $997,610
- Liabilities
- $342,113
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katrina Hughes (President)
- Andy Cornell (Vice President)
- Lauren Reitsema (President)
People named in this filing
- Carey Kim (Governance)
- Kristi Krier (Director)
- Katrina Hughes (President)
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
Dedicated to educating, equipping and empowering individuals of all ages with the relationship skills necessary to form and maintain healthy relationships, healthy marriages and safe, stable families for the well being of children and adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Center for Relationship Education (CRE) envisions a world where individuals of all ages experience positive relationships that are thriving. CRE accomplishes its mission, Providing relationship education skills training to everyone, through both Trainer of Trainer (TOT) curriculum certifications and grant-funded social initiatives and direct services. Relationship education is a crucial component of cultivating connection in a disconnected world. CRE approaches this problem at the root, utilizing its REAL (Relationship Education and Leadership) Essentials curricula products and programming. REAL Essentials brings foundational relationship skills to people of all ages and walks of life, in order to create understanding and effective communication in schools, workplaces, and at home. In 2024, 1500 Colorado high school students received 12 hours of relationship skills training, delivered by CREs Ready2Relate Project, a federally funded program which highlights strategies for building and enhancing connection among 7 Critical Learning Components: communication, conflict resolution, stress and anger, decision making and negotiation, intimacy and affection, marriage knowledge, and financial literacy. An additional 650 high school students received relationship skills training targeting lesson content proven to help students excel toward, and achieve, their lifes dreams through another grant-funded social initiative, titled Livin The Dream (LTD). LTD students learned evidence-based practices for avoiding high-risk behaviors that can create barriers on their path toward life success. Adult learners also benefitted from CREs relationship skills training resources this year. Nearly 300 local military and/or emergency responder couples participated in one of 6 annual Responding to Relationships (RTR) retreat series events, designed to equip this population with proven tools for building, enhancing, or repairing relationships impacted by high-stress and demanding vocational roles. Nationally, CRE certified 586 educators in its TOT certification model, credentialing teachers, health professionals, and counselors, to utilize its REAL Essentials (Relationship Education and Leadership) products and programming to impact local communities. The Center for Relationship Education shines a spotlight on the role that successful relationships play in leading happy, healthy lives. CRE combines evidence-based, proven effective curricula with facilitator training and certification to bring relationship skills to more audiences and ultimately strengthen schools, workplaces, and communities. Above all, CRE makes it simple and fun for anyone to learn more about themselves and their relationships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.