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Compassion & Choices

EIN 84-1328829Human and Civil Rights Colorado Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Support. Educate. Advocate. Choice & care at the end of life.

Compassion & Choices works to improve care and expand choice at the end of life. Our professional staff and trained volunteers help thousands of clients each year by listening without judgment to their fears and guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death. We help clients with advance directives, local service referrals and pain and symptom management. We offer information on self-determined dying when appropriate and provide emotional support through a difficult time. We employ educational training programs, media outreach and online and print publications to change healthcare practice, inform policy-makers, influence public opinion and empower individuals. Compassion & Choices devotes itself to creative legal and legislative initiatives to secure comprehensive and compassionate options at the end of life.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

96.56Overall score
out of 100

96.18Financial score
out of 100

97.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$8,660,832

Total expenses · USD$14,808,739

Program expenses

$11,906,226.16 recorded amount

80.4%

Fundraising expenses

$1,125,464.16 recorded amount

7.6%

Administrative expenses

$1,747,431.20 recorded amount

11.8%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Barbara Coombs Lee
Recorded compensation: $234,795.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.58%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Compassion & Choices
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	97.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	Compassion & Choices works to improve care and expand choice at the end of life. Our professional staff and trained volunteers help thousands of clients each year by listening without judgment to their fears and guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death. We help clients with advance directives, local service referrals and pain and symptom management. We offer information on self-determined dying when appropriate and provide emotional support through a difficult time. We employ educational training programs, media outreach and online and print publications to change healthcare practice, inform policy-makers, influence public opinion and empower individuals. Compassion & Choices devotes itself to creative legal and legislative initiatives to secure comprehensive and compassionate options at the end of life.
`ein` EIN	84-1328829
`tot_exp` Total expenses	14808739.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.11800000000000001
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.09
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.076
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.804
`fscore` Financial score	96.18
`leader` Recorded leader	Barbara Coombs Lee
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	234795.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0158
`motto` Tagline	Support. Educate. Advocate. Choice & care at the end of life.
`name` Charity name	Compassion & Choices
`tot_rev` Total revenue	8660832.0
`score` Overall score	96.56
`state` State code	CO
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	11906226.156000001
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	1125464.1639999999
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1747431.202

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 84-1328829
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: Colorado (CO)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.