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AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,390,310 to it, the largest being MILDRED S HANSEN TRUST FOR AIMS COMM COLLEGE ($701,718). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$17M
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Aims Community College Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the aims foundation is to endorse and support the mission of aims community college through the responsible and ethical solicitation, stewardship and investment of funds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide merit and need-based scholarships to qualifying students attending aims community college.

    $369,097 spentof which $359,212 as grants
    54% of program spending
  2. Provide funding to aims community college internal constituents for various education programs including fire science, ems / paramedic, intensive english and ged, tax help colorado, student affairs and english.

    $319,363 spentof which $319,363 as grants
    46% of program spending
  3. Provide in-kind resources to aims community college that enhance learning and the learning environment.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $688,460.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($494k) Expenses 100 ($487k) Net assets 100 ($6.9M)2018 Revenue 173 ($854k) Expenses 90 ($440k) Net assets 109 ($7.6M)2019 Revenue 106 ($522k) Expenses 51 ($247k) Net assets 117 ($8.1M)2020 Revenue 121 ($600k) Expenses 99 ($484k) Net assets 121 ($8.4M)2021 Revenue 157 ($776k) Expenses 91 ($442k) Net assets 147 ($10M)2022 Revenue 297 ($1.5M) Expenses 129 ($627k) Net assets 139 ($9.7M)2023 Revenue 338 ($1.7M) Expenses 126 ($613k) Net assets 156 ($11M)2024 Revenue 1011 ($5.0M) Expenses 207 ($1.0M) Net assets 224 ($16M)2025 Revenue 292 ($1.4M) Expenses 203 ($986k) Net assets 237 ($17M)
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Revenue (292)Expenses (203)Net assets (237)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $16M (+39%).

$6.9M
$7.6M
$8.1M
$8.4M
$10M
$10.0M
$12M
$16M
$18M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
$414k
’18
$276k
’19
$116k
’20
$335k
’21
$841k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$4.0M
’24
$456k
’25
62
months of
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

Kelly Jackson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed13131011612121315
Joined·+6+1+4+3+6+0+4+2
No longer listed·64380030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $9k → $307k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 80% · 2020 67% · 2021 58% · 2022 47% · 2023 37% — 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

60% of AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
NJ
CO
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve61.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 20%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

54%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,390,310 to it, the largest being MILDRED S HANSEN TRUST FOR AIMS COMM COLLEGE ($701,718). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,390,310 in grants to AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
MILDRED S HANSEN TRUST FOR AIMS COMM COLLEGE is the largest funder on record, with $701,718 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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 21 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