Western Liberty Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812526485
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Littleton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036560312
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $103,751
- Assets
- $1,887
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE NEVILLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOE NEVILLE (PRESIDENT)
- BRANDON WARK (TREASURER)
- AARON YATES (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help reclaim lost liberties and ensure our freedom expands to move society closer to the visions of our founding fathers
What it reported doing in 2019
Informed the public about potential laws and regualtions that could have an impact the legalization of heroin injection centers in Colorado
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -193% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.