United Neighbors Vecinos Unidos

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874008967
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone
9703966158
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing Development, Construction, Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,310,085
Expenses
$650,247
Assets
$10,460,390
Liabilities
$7,311,287

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TOMMI SUE COX (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ADRYLIANNA SANTIAGO (SECRETARY): $6,726 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

United neighbors/ vecinos unidos (unvu) was formed in 2021 to support nueva vida (formerly parklane) mobile home park residents to purchase the park, maintain its affordability, and establish a resident ownership and governance model. Nueva vida, located at 411 s. Court street in fort collins, is home to over 300 residents representing 67 households (200 adults and 100 children), with a population that is 90% spanish-speaking. Many residents are from families who immigrated to fort collins from mexico and have lived in the community for more than 15 years, primarily working in minimum-wage and manual labor jobs. The state of Colorado has worked to pass legislation to protect the rights of mobile home park residents. Hb20-1201 includes an opportunity to purchase provision, whereby park owners must give homeowners at least 90 days to express interest in purchasing the property and another 90 days to close the purchase. Thanks to this landmark bill, residents and community leaders formed

What it reported doing in 2025

United neighbors/vecinos unidos (un/vu) was formed in 2021 to support nueva vida (formerly parklane) mobile home park residents to purchase the park, maintain its affordability, and establish a resident ownership and governance model. Nueva vida became only the sixth mobile home park in the state to move to resident governance/ownership at the time of purchase. This was the result of a rigorous community organizing effort led by and for residents. The role of the un/vu board of directors is to support what the residents of nueva vida want to achieve for their community, now and in the future. Currently, un/vu is focusing its efforts on infrastructure improvements and community governance.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 82% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 39
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 17.3%; rating input score 17
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 80.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.09; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 54.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 17.3% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $572K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 6 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2.5M reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 17/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.