Weld Community Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841315296
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Greeley, CO, USA
Phone
9703049970
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,998,963
Expenses
$5,692,856
Assets
$67,846,605
Liabilities
$3,232,863

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIMOTHY COONS (PRESIDENT / CEO)
  • LAUREN WEBER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • TIMOTHY COONS (PRESIDENT / CEO): $145,708 total reported compensation
  • LAUREN WEBER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $144,641 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The weld community foundation promotes philanthropy to build resources, develops partnerships, and provides leadership that will be of lasting benefit to our communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

The littler youth fund awards grants for the benefit of youth in weld county, including operating grants, program grants, and grants to aid in the development of effective teaching strategies and projects by weld county teachers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $20.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.5%; rating input score 99; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 68.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.92; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 37 of 39 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 89 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 86 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.