· Public charity
Afcea Education Foundation
To offer annual scholarships and grants for students and teachers in science, technology, engineering and math (stem).
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $75,000 |
| SCRIPPS HOWARD FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| PIKES PEAK ROBOTICS | $65,000 |
| GOODWILL OF COLORADO | $50,000 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,199 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR | $10,000 |
| OTERO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $8,100 |
| CARSON MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,923 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPikes Peak Best4× · 2022–2025 · $270k · revenue +39% · 72% of their budget
- TSThe Scripps Howard Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $220k · revenue +79%
- GOGoodwill of Colorado4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +2%
- PPPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +46%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -13%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Pikes Peak Best ↗
- Who funds The Scripps Howard Foundation ↗
- Who funds Goodwill of Colorado ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Business and Education Alliance ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Colorado Education Initiative · Pikes Peak United Way · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Afcea Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Afcea Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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