Colorado · Nonprofit
BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY
BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being Dunlap Silsby Family Foundation ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $231k
What Black Forest Soaring Society does
Mission
Provided instruction, safety training, access to sail planes, access to towing in order to fly sail planes for the benefit of members and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided instruction, safety training, access to sail planes, access to towing in order to fly sail planes for the benefit of members and the community.
$117,852 spent89% of program spendingProvided instruction, safety training, access to sail planes, access to towing in order to fly sail planes for the benefit of members and the community.
$14,259 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $132,111.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $228k to $188k (−18%).
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.
6% of BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY’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.
Where its funders are
BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY's revenue grew 28% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY?
- BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being Dunlap Silsby Family Foundation ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY?
- Dunlap Silsby Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK FOREST SOARING SOCIETY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing