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CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation

CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being KENNETH AND MYRA MONFORT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$34k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$60k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation does

Mission

Literacy Program Suppor

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Book Benefit Program. Receive donated books from various organizations and then donate books to libraries, schools, correctional facilities and other literacy programs and non-prof

    $13,147 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Publish book with the students of West Jefferson Elementary School, Conifer, CO

    $4,415 spent
    25% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,562.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2020 Revenue 6 ($7k) Expenses 44 ($41k) Net assets 71 ($81k)2021 Revenue 22 ($29k) Expenses 12 ($11k) Net assets 86 ($98k)2022 Revenue 19 ($25k) Expenses 10 ($10k) Net assets 99 ($113k)2023 Revenue 10 ($13k) Expenses 26 ($24k) Net assets 89 ($102k)2024 Revenue 18 ($23k) Expenses 65 ($61k) Net assets 57 ($65k)2025 Revenue 27 ($34k) Expenses 42 ($39k) Net assets 52 ($60k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (27)Expenses (42)Net assets (52)Peer revenue range

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 $102k to $65k (−36%).

$114k
$81k
$98k
$113k
$102k
$65k
$60k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

39% of CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’19
−$34k
’20
$18k
’21
$15k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$37k
’24
−$5k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Michael Daniels

Executive Director

Board chair

Danielle Lammon

DirectorBook Benefit Program Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation’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 CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
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

Against its field

CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−14% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−20% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Colorado

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation: 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 CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation?
CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being KENNETH AND MYRA MONFORT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37,500 in grants to CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation?
KENNETH AND MYRA MONFORT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation 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 2019–2025), 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