Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO AEROLAB INC
COLORADO AEROLAB INC (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,382 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $898k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Colorado Aerolab Inc does
Mission
To grow out-of-school-time opportunities for k12 young people through hands-on, experiential learning that stimulates curiosity and wonder and makes a positive difference in the wider community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization implemented 21st century community learning center programs in the rural school districts of west grand and east grand. These centers offered academic and enrichment services to students after school and during summer camps with a focus on stem (science, technology, engineering and math) project-based learning. During school year 2024-25, the organization served 847 k12 students in afterschool programs with 1235 hours of learning opportunities and 249 k12 students in summer programs with 1,010 hours of learning opportunities.
$750,613 spent100% of program spendingThe organization aims to create innovative educational models that integrate a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing social-emotional learning and leadership development to drive positive change in the lives of students, their families, and the broader community.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $750,613.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $47k to $113k (+137%).
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: 2019 87% · 2020 99% · 2021 88% · 2022 97% · 2023 79% · 2024 90% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COLORADO AEROLAB INC’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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $82.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 COLORADO AEROLAB INC’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
COLORADO AEROLAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
COLORADO AEROLAB INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382 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
COLORADO AEROLAB INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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 COLORADO AEROLAB INC
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
91% 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 COLORADO AEROLAB INC: 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 COLORADO AEROLAB INC?
- COLORADO AEROLAB INC (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,382 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO AEROLAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,382 in grants to COLORADO AEROLAB INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO AEROLAB INC?
- Wend II Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO AEROLAB INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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