Colorado · Nonprofit
Center for Public Policy Studies
Center for Public Policy Studies (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $286,623 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($286,623). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Center for Public Policy Studies has grown faster than three-quarters of the 155 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 155 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Caring for Denver Foundationlocal
- State Policy Networkportfolio match
- The Roe Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
0% of Center for Public Policy Studies’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Center for Public Policy Studies’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
100% of Center for Public Policy Studies'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Caring for Denver FoundationlocalCO · funds 203 organizations near you
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mywirelessorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ending Spending Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Action Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Economic Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservative Partnership Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Progress Now Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Center for Public Policy Studies
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Public Policy Studies: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Center for Public Policy Studies?
- Center for Public Policy Studies (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $286,623 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($286,623). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Center for Public Policy Studies have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $286,623 in grants to Center for Public Policy Studies, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Public Policy Studies?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $286,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Public Policy Studies 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing