Colorado · Nonprofit
ACCESS OPPORTUNITY
ACCESS OPPORTUNITY (Colorado) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,167,691 to it, the largest being GOLDEN POND FOUNDATION ($460,365). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Access Opportunity does
Mission
Create opportunities for high-potential students from low-income households to define their individual path through high school, college, and career.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Access College programming begins after a selective admissions process at the end of 10th grade, and assists high school students with college admissions and financial aid through tutoring, workshops, and one-on-one counseling.
$234,037 spent29% of program spendingAccess Career programming runs from the second year of college through college graduation and beyond (via alumni programming) to ensure students make a successful transition from college to career. During college, the organization supports students with career development through a summer career readiness bootcamp, speaker series, cohort meetings covering a variety of career readiness topics, networking events with the community of donors and supporters, and personalized career counseling and guidance. Networking opportunities and personalized career counseling and guidance are also available to alumni upon request.
$332,057 spentof which $143,244 as grants41% of program spendingThe Social and Emotional Learning program runs throughout the course of Access Opportunity's 6-year program and is led by a team of social workers and counselors who provide direct service to students via one-on-one counseling and check-ins, as well as through group sessions. A particular focus of the SEL program is to support first-generation-to-college students with navigating the transition into college and identifying campus resources in order to help ensure that students make a successful transition from high school to college. The SEL program also includes a peer mentorship program as well as family engagement programming that partners and shares resources with families on their students' goals so they feel empowered to help their students reach those goals.
$251,372 spentof which $11,471 as grants31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $817,466.
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 $1.7M to $2.3M (+36%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 6% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ACCESS OPPORTUNITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Susie Hayes
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $68k → $444k.
19 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 ACCESS OPPORTUNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
ACCESS OPPORTUNITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCESS OPPORTUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of ACCESS OPPORTUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of ACCESS OPPORTUNITY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states 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
ACCESS OPPORTUNITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCESS OPPORTUNITY
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: 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 ACCESS OPPORTUNITY?
- ACCESS OPPORTUNITY (Colorado) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,167,691 to it, the largest being GOLDEN POND FOUNDATION ($460,365). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCESS OPPORTUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,167,691 in grants to ACCESS OPPORTUNITY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESS OPPORTUNITY?
- GOLDEN POND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $460,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESS OPPORTUNITY 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 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing