Voices Of Grief Support And Education Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881124290
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Woodland Park, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7196512017
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,278
- Expenses
- $98,787
- Assets
- $4,455
- Liabilities
- $2,453
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mittie Pedraza (President, Dir.)
People named in this filing
- Arnold Sparnins (Treasurer, Dir.)
- Nina Wright (Director)
- Mittie Pedraza (President, Dir.)
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
Our mission is to provide outreach to those in the community who are grieving. We will provide education and support to those in need to assist them through the difficult process of grief.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our accomplishments for 2025 include:- We hosted 13 closed grief support groups, each running six to eight weeks, providing a structured and supportive environment for approximately 75 participants. In total, these groups represented nearly 1,050 hours of direct participant support.- To better meet the evolving needs of our community, we introduced a Veterans Support curriculum in partnership with Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center.- Participant evaluations were consistently strong, reflecting the effectiveness of the program in providing compassionate, relationship-centered support for individuals navigating grief and loss.- We delivered 21 customized grief education programs to professionals and caregivers, reaching approximately 480 participants and providing nearly 1,100 hours of instruction.- These programs served a range of community members, including healthcare professionals, faith leaders, and caregivers, and focused on building skills to engage in conversations about grief and mourning with greater empathy and understanding.- Through these educational efforts, the organization extends its impact beyond direct services by strengthening the capacity of community partners to support individuals experiencing loss.- Our outreach efforts reached approximately 2,900 individuals across the region. We participated in 52 community events and resource fairs, where staff and volunteers provided information, facilitated conversations about grief, and connected individuals with available support services.- We also hosted a Community Gathering of Song & Healing with 215 attendees, which received coverage from three local television stations.- Through these efforts, the organization increased community awareness of grief as a natural human experience and improved access to information about available support resources in the Pikes Peak region.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -45.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.