Colorado · Nonprofit
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN (Colorado) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,638,864 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($875,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $900k
What Angels of America's Fallen does
Mission
Angels of americas fallen provides funding for sports, music and arts participation for children of fallen military and first responders, and provides intakes and referrals, outreach and individualized person-centered case management utilizing a strengths-based trauma informed approach. Angels has a peer support program as a platform to connect families to support one another as they redefine family life after the traumatic loss of their spouse, and a voices program which allows children and surviving spouses to tell their stories to honor their loved one and help others who are in similar situations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Angels of americas fallen provides funding for sports, music and arts participation for children of fallen military and first responders, and provides intakes and referrals, outreach and individualized person-centered case management utilizing a strengths-based trauma informed approach. Angels has a peer support program as a platform to connect families to support one another as they redefine family life after the traumatic loss of their spouse, and a voices program which allows children and surviving spouses to tell their stories to honor their loved one and help others who are in similar situations. In 2025, the organization supported 635 children and their 398 parents/guardians nationwide with the children participating in 38,752 activity sessions with a coach or instructor. The organization's outreach interactions include enrollments, education, newsletters, making referrals and peer connections, setting up activities, and checking in on them to see how things are going. In 2025, the organization had 32,706 case management and outreach interactions.
$1,311,665 spentof which $531,112 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,311,665.
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 2019 to 2020, from $306k to $654k (+113%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Joseph Lewis
CEO
Board chair
John Farnam
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $79k → $891k.
12 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 47% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 56% — 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
32% of ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN has grown faster than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN?
- ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN (Colorado) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,638,864 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($875,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $2,638,864 in grants to ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN?
- GARY SINISE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN 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 60 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