Colorado · Nonprofit
Adams 14 Education Foundation
Adams 14 Education Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,495 to it, the largest being LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ($95,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $483k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Adams 14 Education Foundation does
Mission
To develop tomorrow's talent through teacher grants, student scholarships, and leadership programs in the Adams 14 community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships: only 22% of students who attend Adams County District 14 schools access post-secondary educational opportunities. The Adams 14 Education Foundation has awarded over $1.8m in scholarships to graduating seniors to attend community colleges, 4-year colleges and universities. More importantly, the Foundation has mentored and ensured that 77% of scholarship recipients remain on track and successfully complete their post-secondary dreams. Over 150 scholarships have been awarded over the last 10 years.
$98,460 spent69% of program spendingFunding the Unfunded are creative approaches to enhance student achievement through funding unmet needs. Over the past ten years, Adams 14 Education Foundation has funded over $180,000 to teachers and the Adams 14 School District. Serving 3,200 - to 5,200 students each year.
$35,440 spent25% of program spendingLeadership Commerce City: The Leadership Commerce City program develops future leaders for roles in the community.
$8,099 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $141,999.
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 2022 to 2023, from $907k to $1.5M (+60%).
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: 2017 71% · 2018 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Adams 14 Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $29k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Adams 14 Education Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
Adams 14 Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 Adams 14 Education Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of Adams 14 Education Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% 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
73% of Adams 14 Education Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $71k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Adams 14 Education Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Adams 14 Education Foundation
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Adams 14 Education Foundation: 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 Adams 14 Education Foundation?
- Adams 14 Education Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,495 to it, the largest being LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ($95,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Adams 14 Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $263,495 in grants to Adams 14 Education Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Adams 14 Education Foundation?
- LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adams 14 Education Foundation 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.
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 10 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