Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841354894
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9702433767
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,127,571
- Expenses
- $12,535,569
- Assets
- $211,061,767
- Liabilities
- $10,364,857
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNE WENZEL (CEO/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANNE WENZEL (CEO/PRESIDENT): $242,077 total reported compensation
- CHEREE SEADER (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS): $142,851 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Western Colorado community foundation amplifies the generosity in our communities by providing leadership, connections, and resources to meet the ever-evolving needs of our western Colorado home.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth mental health and well-being - rising anxiety, depression, substance use, and thoughts of suicide among young people continue to challenge our communities. In 2025, the youthstrong initiative focused on building resilience and supporting well-being through healthy technology use and life skills. The heads up parenting campaign introduced two new characters and expanded outreach through bus stop flyers, radio spots, and educational resources. Expanding into garfield county, the campaign drew attention from statewide foundations and the Colorado attorney general.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $126.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 92.8%; rating input score 93; 30th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.84; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 18 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $430K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 196 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 196 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.