Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE
COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,491,420 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,462,971). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Colorado Center for Nursing Excelle does
Mission
Building on a foundation of evidence, the center advocates for and provides professional education, leadership development, coaching and data analysis to continually strengthen the nursing and healthcare workforce. Our defining strategy is to convene and engage the right people at the right time to develop and implement solutions to emerging healthcare challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nurse refresher the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence offers nurse refresher courses for rns and lpns who are either looking to update their clinical skills or have let their license lapse and want to apply for relicensure in their state. All students entering the program are provided the opportunity of a virtual learning program (novex) which measures and reinforces clinical judgement and critical thinking skills. The program is set up in a learning in place format until students are ready to move to an in-person clinical education experience in preparation for their return to work. The program is approved by state boards of nursing in 17 states and offers versions that are shorter in length(light) for those needing less professional development and have been out of the workforce for 2 years or less. The longer versions are for rns and lpns who are looking to relicense or have been out of the workforce for more than 2 years. The full rn relicensure program takes 9 months to complete and requires both virtual and in person clinical learning opportunities. Clinical scholars the clinical scholar professional development program serves nurses working in a clinical setting who…
$355,431 spent$888,982 earned by the program14% of program spendingAll other accomplishments and all other programs.
$2,174,506 spent$888,982 earned by the program86% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,529,937.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.6M to $5.3M (+45%).
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 37% · 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 30% · 2023 41% · 2024 36% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Ingrid Johnson Dnp Mpp Rn
CEO and pres
Board chair
Kathy Prue-Owens Phd Rn Ccrn
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $712k → $196k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE’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 CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 51% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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 CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE has grown faster than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.5M on record — $13.5M federal, $7k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.0M
- Department of Labor$2.5M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$7k
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 CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE
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
76% 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
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Solich Caddie & Leadership Acadamy · disregarded
- Ccre LLC · disregarded
- Broadmoor Caddie & Leadership Acade · disregarded
- Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado · exempt
- Ccgo LLC · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE: 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 CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE?
- COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,491,420 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,462,971). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,491,420 in grants to COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,462,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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