The Foundation for Colorado High School Activities Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841196768
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3033445050
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,172
- Expenses
- $47,343
- Assets
- $222,197
- Liabilities
- $1,935
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY OZZELLO (PRESIDENT/TR)
People named in this filing
- GARY OZZELLO (PRESIDENT/TR)
- JENN ROBERTS-UHLIG (VICE PRESIDE)
- SARAH VERNON-BRUNNER (SECRETARY)
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
To create, preserve and fund opportunities for the chsaa membership and to support initiatives that are outside of chsaa's normal purview.
What it reported doing in 2025
The program we funded this year was for athletic director mentorship. This group directly impacts the people we represent through the foundation, so the board felt strongly in supporting this program. Athletic directors have a high turnover rate, so a mentorship program was created to help guide and mentor them in the hope that it would improve their success on the job and their enjoyment of the job. Our funds went to paying the 3 ad mentors that were hired. They worked directly with new athletic directors to help them, via in person meetings traveling around the state to visit them and via vitual meetings. Positive feedback was received from athletic directors about the importance of this program. Our fundraising effors to support this program were focused on hosting a golf tournament and online auction to raise money.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.69; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.