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ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,485 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ($316,427). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$206k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$642k
Net assets
$123k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Association for the Promotion of Apostolate does

Mission

Mission is to support the evangelization done by the Roman Catholic church supporting the local bishops and abiding by the teachings and Canon Law of the Catholic Church. It promotes the evangelization of the youth of the culture promotes solidarity with the poor and promotes family life and dignity of the human person. It supports the priests and consecrated dedicated to the evangelization both in their needs of sustenance and formation and in their apostolic works. it also supports nonprofit organizations that further these goals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants were provided to support religious vocations and pastoral ministry of Catholic nuns and brothers especially their ministry to the poor.

    $69,200 spentof which $69,200 as grants
    54% of program spending
  2. Grants were provided to support Catholic Education with programs teachers and training.

    $25,950 spentof which $25,950 as grants
    20% of program spending
  3. Funds were for ministry to the poor and homeless.

    $7,250 spentof which $6,750 as grants
    6% of program spending
  4. The grant provided funds for food and medicines for homeless shelters in Lima - Peru.

    $6,450 spentof which $6,450 as grants
    5% of program spending
  5. Funds were provided to organizations and individuals to further their charitable mission and education.

    $19,725 spent
    15% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,575.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($281k) Expenses 100 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2022 Revenue 98 ($277k) Expenses 120 ($264k) Net assets 96 ($121k)2023 Revenue 64 ($179k) Expenses 95 ($210k) Net assets 71 ($90k)2024 Revenue 99 ($279k) Expenses 113 ($248k) Net assets 96 ($121k)2025 Revenue 73 ($206k) Expenses 93 ($205k) Net assets 97 ($123k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (73)Expenses (93)Net assets (97)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 2022 to 2023, from $141k to $95k (−32%).

$128k
$141k
$95k
$134k
$125k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’21
$12k
’22
−$31k
’23
$31k
’24
$2k
’25
6.6
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed33333
Joined·+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·0003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $201k → $49k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE’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

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE.

49%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2019 81% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 64% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.

“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

57% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE'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 $276k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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

’17
’19
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE

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

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE?
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,485 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ($316,427). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $642,485 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE?
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $316,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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