Tradition of Excellence Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742519533
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7195799090
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,085
- Expenses
- $50,604
- Assets
- $231,012
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Scott (President)
People named in this filing
- Eric Scott (President)
- Tracy Doherty (Secretary)
- Melody Antles (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 tradition of exellence foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization created to promote and support programs of academic, artistic, and athletic excellence in the cheyenne mountain district 12 schools. Founded in 1988, the foundation provides a tax-deductible vehicle for citizens, businesses, and foundations to contribute to cheyenne mountain school district 12. The tradition of excellence foundation operates independently from, but in cooperation with, the d12 board of education and district administration officials and staff to identify specific needs that the school district is unable to fund, either by law or by budgetary limitations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promoted and supported programs of academic, artistic, and athletic excellence in the cheyenne mountain district 12 schools through grants and volunteer involvement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.2%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96
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: 54.9%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.57; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.2% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.