Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND
COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,707 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($314,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Colorado Center for the Blind does
Mission
The Colorado Center for the Blind provides training which enables blind individuals to lead independent productive lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Independence training program this program is designed for blind adults ages eighteen and up. The typical program length is six to nine months. Students not only build the skills they will need to be independent, but also focus on gaining confidence and belief in themselves as blind people. Classes include home management, cane travel, braille, organizational skills, computer/technology, industrial arts and vocational planning. Students are taught by positive blind role models and learn that they can compete with their sighted peers. When the student completes training, they are able to apply for employment or attend a vocational or academic program.
$6,162,422 spent$1,809,595 earned by the program92% of program spendingOlder blind adults services program. Designed to serve blind adults 55 years of age and older. Our goal is to help older blind adults gain the skills and confidence to stay independent in their homes and continue to participate in daily activities. Options offered include in-home teaching services, group classes (braile, cooking and cane travel), support groups around the metro area, computer and phone instruction and older blind adults taking charge this is a five day residential program offering intensive skills of blindness training.
$297,289 spent4% of program spendingYouth services program. The organization offers programs for children ages 5-21 in both year round and summer programming. Core components are mentoring, skills of blindness building, independent living, vocational training and services to parents and educators.
$223,498 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,683,209.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.9M to $11M (+183%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 9% · 2020 26% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 9% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Julie Deden
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Beecham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $139k → $171k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 THE BLIND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 CENTER FOR THE BLIND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 37% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 22% · 2022 27% · 2023 23% — 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
45% of COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
51% of COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $652k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k 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 THE BLIND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $641k on record.
- NJ$561k
- CT$53k
- OR$21k
- VT$6k
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 THE BLIND
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 CENTER FOR THE BLIND: 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 THE BLIND?
- COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,707 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($314,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,324,707 in grants to COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $314,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND 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 34 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