Colorado · Nonprofit
Beyond Words International
Beyond Words International (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,847 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($121,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $500
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Beyond Words International does
Mission
BWIs primary exempt purpose is to cultivate hope healing and connection through the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
BWI donated to the Mahaba Childrens Foundation in Uganda to continue to fund education for 26 children who otherwise could not attend school. https: www.youtube.com channel UC_y1YRwDsbCfF9wDPftx3MA featured.The full amount went directly to Mahaba to support the 26 childrens education expenses.
$12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants32% of program spendingBWI donated to Rise Above Violence in Pagosa Springs CO. https: www.riseaboveviolence.org # . Rise is a private nonprofit organization. Their primary mission is to assist victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. They work to ensure victims rights are exercised and needs met. Through the support of grants donations fund-raising efforts and volunteers Rise provides immediate crisis intervention available 24 hours a day by an advocate trained to listen and provide support. Rise serves over 300 members in our small community each year.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants54% of program spendingBWI donated to Choose Love https: chooselove.org to help fund their efforts to support Ukranian refugees.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants14% of program spendingBWI donated to Casa de Paz SLV to help provide support for families seeking asylum.
$0 spentof which $2,000 as grants0% of program spendingBWI donated $10,000 to Among the Least https: www.amongtheleast.org to assist refugee families settling in Pagosa Springs.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grants0% of program spendingBWI donated $3,000 to support the work of PhD candidate Casey Crow for her work with the Mahaba Childrens Fund in Uganda. Casey is a BWI board member.
$0 spentof which $3,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $102k to $69k (−33%).
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.
100% of Beyond Words International’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $30k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 Beyond Words International’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
Beyond Words International leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Beyond Words International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 86% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
98% of Beyond Words International'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.
Against its field
Beyond Words International's revenue fell 99% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Beyond Words International
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Beyond Words International: 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 Beyond Words International?
- Beyond Words International (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,847 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($121,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Beyond Words International have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $152,847 in grants to Beyond Words International, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Beyond Words International?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $121,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Beyond Words International 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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