Colorado · Nonprofit
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,730,467 to it, the largest being STURM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,741,813). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The arapahoe community college foundation's mission is to support and promote the goals of arapahoe community college and its students by creating public awarness and funding resources that provide financial assistance and broad-based support for the college's students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awarded grants to arapahoe community college programs and scholarships to individual college students toward tuition and supplies while enrolled at arapahoe community college.
$676,593 spentof which $676,593 as grants22% of program spendingAssisted various arapahoe community college education departments with special equipment, funding for enhanced programming for conferences and supported student clubs and organizations.
$2,288,114 spentof which $1,982,368 as grants75% of program spendingOther program service expenditures provided for operating expenses and for alumni relations and community development.
$96,981 spentof which $96,981 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,061,688.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.0M to $7.3M (+265%).
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 39% · 2018 31% · 2019 2% · 2020 16% · 2021 46% · 2022 16% · 2023 27% · 2024 35% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Randy Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $107k → $1.7M.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 38% · 2019 44% · 2020 95% · 2021 79% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% — 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 ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
98% of ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $632k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Arapahoe Community College · exempt
- Colorado Comm College System Found · exempt
- Comm College of Aurora Found · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: 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 ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,730,467 to it, the largest being STURM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,741,813). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $8,730,467 in grants to ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- STURM FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,741,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC 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 32 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