Colorado · Nonprofit
BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE
BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $806,000 to it, the largest being ROOTED ($776,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $806k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Beacon Network Schools Innovation Zone does
Mission
The Beacon Network School Innovation Zone will empower Beacon Schools with collective flexibilities and resources; support for teachers and leaders to learn together, grow, and excel; and community ownership and involvement, in order to codify the Beacon Model and sustain it to improve outcomes for students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Beacon Network School Innovation Zone will empower Beacon Schools with collective flexibilities and resources; support for teachers and leaders to learn together, grow, and excel; and community ownership and involvement, in order to codify the Beacon Model and sustain it to improve outcomes for students.
$63,573 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,573.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $56k to $496k (+791%).
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.
86% of BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Alex Magana
Executive Director
Board chair
Renee Martinez
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $321k → $175k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE’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
BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE's revenue fell 98% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE: 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 BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE?
- BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $806,000 to it, the largest being ROOTED ($776,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $806,000 in grants to BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE?
- ROOTED is the largest funder on record, with $776,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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