Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION
COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION ($65,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $429k
What Colorado Bioscience Association does
Mission
Cbsa champions a collaborative colorado life sciences ecosystem and advocates for a supportive business climate on behalf of member companies and organizations and in support of the colorado bioscience institute.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cbsa creates a supportive ecosystem for our members (individuals to major corporations and institutions), who drive global health innovations that improve and save lives through: capital + growth: we support access to capital at all stages of commercialization. Education + networking: we foster a statewide culture of collaboration with our programs and events (signature events include: annual awards celebration and drive to five innovation tour).
Policy + advocacy: we cultivate a supportive, innovation-friendly business climate for life sciences. Workforce cultivation: we grow an educated, experienced workforce and connect jobseekers to companies. Champion: we lead the ecosystem in colorado and share our success stories.co hub for health impact: we support retention, expansion, and attraction of life sciences companies, talent & investment.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed 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. 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 $947k to $1.4M (+43%).
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: 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Elyse Blazevich
President and CEO
Board chair
Ethan Mann
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION’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
COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Colorado Bioscience Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION: 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 BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION?
- COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION ($65,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $65,500 in grants to COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION?
- BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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