Colorado · Nonprofit
ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM
ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,810 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($383,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Adams County Education Consortium does
Mission
To enhance personalized academic skills development, professional exploration, and relevant work-ready skills for all learner groups in adams county through countywide partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The adams county commissioners career expo is an annual career fair which hosts about 5,000 students.
$68,058 spent5% of program spendingThe adams county mayors and commissioners youth award (acmcya) and adams county scholarship programs recognize teenagers in grades 6th through 12th, or those young people who may not currently be in a school setting but are 20 years of age or less. Scholarships are awarded based on recommendations from community members and teachers. Adams county scholarships are provided to graduating seniors for educational expenses at a 2 or 4 year college or university or trade school.
$1,338,178 spent89% of program spendingBackpacks to briefcases is a dinner event designed to help students make the transition from the high school classroom to work. The program targets selected adams county high school juniors and seniors.
$47,045 spent3% of program spendingApprenticeship fair is a an apprenticeship fair for high school juniors and seniors which is an educational event where various industries have booths designed to familiarize youth with school to career opportunities that include apprenticeships and certificate programs that are alternatives to four-year college programs. More than 500 high school attended the event to meet with more than 50 companies who represented skilled trades, health care, energy, it and other industries.
$58,649 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,511,930.
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 2017 to 2018, from $505k to $989k (+96%).
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.
97% of ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $230k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM’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
ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
89% 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 COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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
82% of ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM'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 $86k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $383k 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
ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM: 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 COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM?
- ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,810 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($383,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $468,810 in grants to ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $383,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMS COUNTY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM 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 4 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