Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU
COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,567 to it, the largest being EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Colorado Association for the Education of You does
Mission
We strive to help early childhood professionals develop, grow and succeed and to promote equitable access to quality learning and care for all of colorado's children
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program Service **Participated in early childhood community events across the state, including the northwest Colorado, the eastern plains, mountain communities, and the Denver metro area ***Hosted 2 in person networking opportunities for early childhood educators
Program Service - Advocacy and Public Policy Engagement ***Secured a gubernatorial proclamation for the Week of the Young Child, ****Participated in the 2026 NAEYC Public Policy Forum, Launched a quarterly virtual advocacy workshop with a partnership organization
Program Service - Membership Support & Capacity Building ****Increased organizational capacity by transitioning to a part-time staff model supported by a foundation grant. ****Promoted diverse leadership by translating key governance and recruiting documents into Spanish and redesigning the board application and onboarding process.---Awarded 96 training certificates ***Provided 67.5 hours of live training with a total of 6,480 clock hours eligible for credit in Colorado Early Childhood Professional Development Information System ***Provided access to on-demand training to 20 early childhood professionals ***Trained 36 new reflective supervision/consultation facilitators, now qualified to provide group and individual reflective facilitation across Colorado ***Provided group reflective consultation for teachers and directors. One group received facilitation in Arabic.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $23k to $37k (+58%).
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: 2022 21% · 2023 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Enola Garland
Executive director
Board chair
Diana Herrera
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $20k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU’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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
59% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 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
100% of COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,015 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU: 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU?
- COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,567 to it, the largest being EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $50,567 in grants to COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU?
- EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOU 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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