The Color Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332435122
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Easthampton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8566304041
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,791
- Expenses
- $63,640
- Assets
- $156,845
- Liabilities
- $5,426
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Caroline Pocock (President)
People named in this filing
- Caroline Pocock (President)
- Kat Champoux (Treasurer)
- Gabrielle Patterson (Clerk)
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 Color Collaborative is a full-service design studio working with organizations, schools, companies, and municipalities to create murals that breathe life into spaces and promote mindfulness and mental health.
What it reported doing in 2025
Imagined Worlds program (Holyoke): A mural created in collaboration with the Childrens Museum at Holyoke. Design was influenced by your artwork. Youth participated in a workshop and were asked to imagine a space wherethey can feel happy, positive, and safe. 200 people benefited
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.8%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 76
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: 67.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.46; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.8% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.