Colorado · Nonprofit
Chaffee County Early Childhood Council
Chaffee County Early Childhood Council (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $927,341 to it, the largest being Rose Community Foundation ($358,929). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $335k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $927k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Chaffee County Early Childhood Council does
Mission
To bring together parents, education and health and mental health professionals and service providers to ensure all children start school ready to learn by creating a coordinated system that improves and sustains the availability, accessibility, capacity and quality of early childhood services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ensure all children start school ready to learn by creating a coordinated system that improves and sustains the availability, accessibility, capacity and quality of early childhood services.
$260,459 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $260,459.
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 2019 to 2020, from $65k to $280k (+331%).
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: 2021 22% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% · 2024 57% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Chaffee County Early Childhood Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Board chair
Dione Garritson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $359k → $125k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Chaffee County Early Childhood Council’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Chaffee County Early Childhood Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 Chaffee County Early Childhood Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 83% · 2022 45% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Chaffee County Early Childhood Council's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $444k 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.
Against its field
Chaffee County Early Childhood Council runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chaffee County Early Childhood Council
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Chaffee County Early Childhood Council: 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 Chaffee County Early Childhood Council?
- Chaffee County Early Childhood Council (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $927,341 to it, the largest being Rose Community Foundation ($358,929). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chaffee County Early Childhood Council have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $927,341 in grants to Chaffee County Early Childhood Council, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chaffee County Early Childhood Council?
- Rose Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $358,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chaffee County Early Childhood Council 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 7 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