Colorado · Nonprofit
ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER
ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,073 to it, the largest being T KEVIN MCNICHOLAS FOUNDATION ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Accelerated Schools of Denver does
Mission
To operate a preparatory school for children in elementary grades through high school and, , foreign high school students needing tutoring, college preparatory, advanced studies, and english language instruction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To operate a preparatory school in the state of colorado for children elementary to high school and in connection therewith provide tutoring, special academic training, ged courses, tutoring classes and training for children with learning and social difficulties. The school averages approximately 20 students per semester.
$1,158,840 spent$459,870 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,158,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $3.0M (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
2% of ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michelle Tuengel
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $20.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER's revenue fell 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER?
- ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,073 to it, the largest being T KEVIN MCNICHOLAS FOUNDATION ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,073 in grants to ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER?
- T KEVIN MCNICHOLAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF DENVER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing