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BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO

BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,900 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ($169,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$174k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$180k
Net assets
$8k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Black Child Development Institute Colorado does

Mission

To improve and advance the quality of life for Black children and families througheducation and advocacy. Serving Black children and families in the Denver metroarea through direct services, policy, advocacy, resource distribution, andmobilization.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The National Black Child Development Institute Denver Affiliate (BCDI-Denver) adopted the mission of our national organization to improve and advance the lives of Black children and their families through education and advocacy. Through the mission BCDI-Denver served children and families through direct services, policy, and advocacy. BCDI-Denver worked to expand from a local affiliate model to a statewide model to serve more children and families. BCDI-Denver conduced a statewide needs assessment, state blueprint, and community interviews. BCDI-Denver worked on statewide policy and advocacy in conjunction with over sixty state partners to pass several bills into Colorado law. The organization currently operates within four policy and advocacy coalitions that have positively impacted Colorado children and their families. BCDI-Denver conducted literacy focused programs on the ground including their Barbershop and Books, Watch Me Read Watch Me Succeed,

    $123,855 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $123,855.

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 ($300k) Expenses 100 ($294k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2022 Revenue 91 ($273k) Expenses 123 ($362k) Net assets 28 ($36k)2023 Revenue 29 ($86k) Expenses 41 ($119k) Net assets 2 ($3k)2024 Revenue 58 ($174k) Expenses 57 ($169k) Net assets 6 ($8k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (58)Expenses (57)Net assets (6)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 2021 to 2022, from $126k to $36k (−72%).

$126k
$36k
$3k
$8k
2021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’21
−$89k
’22
−$33k
’23
$5k
’24
0.5
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.

2021202220232024
Listed7566
Joined·+0+5+3
No longer listed·243
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $9k.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
The Civic Canopyunclassified
$10k
funders
1
1
2
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO’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

BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.

WA
CO
MD

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO's revenue fell 42% between 2021 and 2024.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 12%Fundraising 14%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

56%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO?
BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,900 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ($169,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $179,900 in grants to BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO?
NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $169,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COLORADO find more funders?
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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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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