Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION
COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,780 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($233,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $591k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $459k
- Net assets
- $0
What Colorado African Organization does
Mission
Our mission is to support colorado's refugee, immigrant and asylum-seeking populations in their pursuit of integration, self-sufficiency and freedom. Cao provides programs to support individuals
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Community navigation - bridging the gap between resettlement and self- sufficiency, cao navigators provide resources and links to systems in the u.s. Including education, housing, healthcare and employment. Education - in order to build the language skills necessary for self- sufficiency, cao provides weekday and weekend classes for english language learners (ell/esl) as well as a robust citizenship training program. Community development - following resettlement, cao provides opportunities for local integration by building, supporting and strengthening our refugee communities through community organizing and organizational development.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $325k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 77% · 2018 43% · 2019 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2017 → 2019: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $75k → $169k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 AFRICAN ORGANIZATION’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 AFRICAN ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
49% 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 COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 51% — 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 COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k 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.
Government funding COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION?
- COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,780 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($233,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $458,780 in grants to COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $233,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO AFRICAN ORGANIZATION 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 4 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