Colorado · Nonprofit
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (Colorado) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,912,592 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($921,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center does
Mission
To expand the potential of people with disabilities and special needs through meaningful, education and inspiring outdoor experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The BOEC offers outdoor education and disabled skiing programs for people with disabilities, serious illness, professionals and youth at risk. Activities include skiing, backpacking, rock climbing, outdoor skills, communication initiatives, rope courses, workshops, hiking, fishing, etc.
$2,143,533 spentof which $67,180 as grants$1,080,452 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,143,533.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $4.1M (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Sonya Norris
Executive Director
Board chair
Leslee Balten
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $187k → $522k.
13 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $453k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Summit Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
74% 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 Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 32% · 2019 30% · 2020 55% · 2021 17% · 2022 35% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $911k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$911k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
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.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center?
- Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (Colorado) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,912,592 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($921,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $2,912,592 in grants to Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $921,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 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