Colorado · Nonprofit
Can Do Multiple Sclerosis
Can Do Multiple Sclerosis (Colorado) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,048,436 to it, the largest being DICK AND ROBIN KELLY FOUNDATION AGY ($507,800). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Can Do Multiple Sclerosis does
Mission
Can Do Multiple Sclerosis leads the way with comprehensive programs that empower people and their support partners living with MS to transform and improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Can Do MS reached more than 371,000 individuals and families living with MS with 200+ health and wellness education engagement opportunities across the country, delivered entirely free of cost. Medical professionals delivered coaching and content on a variety of topics provided live, virtually, and in-person, including discrete coaching series, webinars, on-demand exercise, archived presentations, articles, podcasts, and short-form videos.All Can Do MS Education:Provides opportunities for people with MS and their care partners to learn new actionable information, connect with others and become activated to develop new MS management and health strategies.Helps people with MS become knowledgeable and powerful healthcare self-advocates who can engage effectively with their healthcare team. Delivers a variety of program modalities to meet the range of learning styles and access needs of our participants. Ensures cultural sensitivity and attention to health equity in all programs and engagement strategies.
$1,774,036 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,774,036.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.8M (+43%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $67k → $258k.
16 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Can Do Multiple Sclerosis’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
Can Do Multiple Sclerosis has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
34% 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 Can Do Multiple Sclerosis.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 34% · 2019 64% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of Can Do Multiple Sclerosis's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
Can Do Multiple Sclerosis draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $478k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Organizations like Can Do Multiple Sclerosis
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis: 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 Can Do Multiple Sclerosis?
- Can Do Multiple Sclerosis (Colorado) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,048,436 to it, the largest being DICK AND ROBIN KELLY FOUNDATION AGY ($507,800). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Can Do Multiple Sclerosis have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,048,436 in grants to Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Can Do Multiple Sclerosis?
- DICK AND ROBIN KELLY FOUNDATION AGY is the largest funder on record, with $507,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Can Do Multiple Sclerosis 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 53 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