Colorado · Nonprofit
ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC
ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,138,045 to it, the largest being THE BENIFICUS FOUNDATION ($62,442,509). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,063 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Climateworks Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio match
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 14% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $32M.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC’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
ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 49% · 2021 52% · 2022 84% · 2023 37% — 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
50% of ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Climateworks Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nick DeWolf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex C Walker Educational & Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woka Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advocates for Climate Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.7M
- National Science Foundation$629k
- Department of the Interior$483k
- Department of Commerce$438k
- Department of Energy$132k
- Department of Agriculture$82k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 1 related entity
- Crux Alliance LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC?
- ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,138,045 to it, the largest being THE BENIFICUS FOUNDATION ($62,442,509). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $179,138,045 in grants to ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC?
- THE BENIFICUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,442,509 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing