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CDR ASSOCIATES

CDR ASSOCIATES (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$1.1M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Cdr Associates does

Mission

CDR is dedicated to being a global leader in helping diverse stakeholders use open, constructive, and collaborative dialogue to make difficult decisions and transform seemingly intractable conflicts. We accomplish this through professional facilitation and mediation services, consultation, and training.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Environment/Public Policy Programs (Transportation, Water/Energy, Sustainable Development, Land): This Program devises solutions through policy dialogues, decision-making processes, facilitation services, and logistic support to stakeholders from both public and private sectors with differing interests arising out of public policy issues. Services may also include training, dispute systems design, and other consultations for these sectors in dealing with environmental and/or public policy issues specifically.

    $1,265,389 spentof which $75,237 as grants$1,204,804 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. Organizational Programs: This program provides training, dispute systems design, consultation services, and intervention programs to organizations, public and private. Training programs are delivered to employees, volunteers, and colleagues in various public and private organizations on the topic of conflict resolution theory and the development of skills needed to resolve conflict. Dispute systems design services provide comprehensive consultation for designing and implementing systems to prevent and manage conflict within and between organizations. Consultation, mediation, and facilitation services address specific situations as they arise in and between public and private organizations and provide a way to reconcile conflicts and facilitate amicable solutions.

    $227,121 spent$259,497 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Private and Public Training Programs: Individuals attend public training seminars on The Mediation Process, a 40-hour program that teaches the basic skills of mediation. Also available is the facilitation and mediation of public and environmental disputes, a 24-hour course that teaches advanced and focused skills to deal with these types of disputes in the participants' agencies, organization, and their own practices of conflict resolution.

    $129,784 spent$139,892 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,622,294.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($773k) Expenses 100 ($823k) Net assets 100 ($458k)2021 Revenue 196 ($1.5M) Expenses 138 ($1.1M) Net assets 182 ($832k)2022 Revenue 191 ($1.5M) Expenses 160 ($1.3M) Net assets 217 ($992k)2023 Revenue 200 ($1.5M) Expenses 187 ($1.5M) Net assets 220 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 220 ($1.7M) Expenses 197 ($1.6M) Net assets 234 ($1.1M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (220)Expenses (197)Net assets (234)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $551k to $876k (+59%).

$551k
$876k
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$50k
’20
$374k
’21
$160k
’22
$8k
’23
$78k
’24
4.9
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed77988
Joined·+3+3+0+0
No longer listed·3110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of CDR ASSOCIATES’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

CDR ASSOCIATES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

’21
’22
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

Government funding CDR ASSOCIATES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $577k on record — $482k federal, $94k state.

Federal$482k
grants $0contracts $482k
17
18
19
22
Top agencies
  • Department of Transportation$328k
  • Department of Justice$125k
  • Department of the Interior$30k
State$94k
03
04
05
06
07
09
19
By state
  • NJ$70k
  • OR$25k

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 CDR ASSOCIATES

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

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 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CDR ASSOCIATES: 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 CDR ASSOCIATES?
CDR ASSOCIATES (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CDR ASSOCIATES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to CDR ASSOCIATES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CDR ASSOCIATES?
The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CDR ASSOCIATES 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 2020–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing