Colorado · Nonprofit
CHARLIES GUYS
CHARLIES GUYS (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,720 to it, the largest being EZE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Charlies Guys does
Mission
Provide support to bereaved siblings and children going through loss (e.g., death of parent) or sibling in NICU/PICU.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Bereavement Gifts and Experiences - When a child loses a sibling, we provide a special gift or experience to make that child feel loved and not forgotten
$30,463 spent56% of program spendingNICU/PICU Package Costs - If a child has a sibling in the NICU or PICU, we send a care package that includes toys and comforts.
$183 spent0% of program spendingPenpal program - We try to connect bereaved siblings through an intentional penpal program that includes stationary, envelopes and additional materials
$558 spent1% of program spendingCam Charlie -- A weekend with families that had lost a sibling or parent. Volunteer therapist on-site, activities for the whole family.
$16,032 spent30% of program spendingCare Packages - In addition to providing gifts and experiences to bereaved siblings, we also recognize that children that go through a traumatic loss (like the loss of a parent), also need help. We send care packages to these children.
$7,100 spent13% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,336.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $19k to $60k (+215%).
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.
100% of CHARLIES GUYS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $21k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CHARLIES GUYS’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
CHARLIES GUYS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 CHARLIES GUYS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 78% · 2022 39% · 2023 72% — 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
40% of CHARLIES GUYS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
81% of CHARLIES GUYS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHARLIES GUYS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHARLIES GUYS
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.
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLIES GUYS: 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 CHARLIES GUYS?
- CHARLIES GUYS (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,720 to it, the largest being EZE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLIES GUYS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $167,720 in grants to CHARLIES GUYS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLIES GUYS?
- EZE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLIES GUYS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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