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COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC
COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,776 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($220,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $848k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $549k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Colorado Consortium for Earth and Space Science Education Inc does
Mission
Colorado consortium for earth and space science education is the premier provider of informational stem education for k-8 in southern colorado. Programs are provided in their facility, at client's facilities, and support numerous other stem and career development outreach programs, with the goal of increasing stem-interested students to college and employees to industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On-site missions and programs - simulator missions employ three space simulators to encourage students to pursue stem career fields as they apply lessons they have learned in their class to real-life, time-critical problems in an engaging, exciting environment. Educators deliver a co- curricular unit of study to their students in preparation for the field trip to the on-site mission. Students experience the excitement of a human space mission as they work together to solve problems and find success as a team. In the second half day of their field trip, students learn about the planets and stars in the mikkelson planetarium, and work as teams to solve design/build or coding challenges in the maker space.
$274,097 spent$379,481 earned by the program35% of program spendingOff-site missions - distance-delivered "e-missions" are intended as a lower-cost option for schools outside reasonable driving distances, providing the excitement of a challenger mission at about half the cost per pupil. Delivered via broadband, e-missions allow students to engage in "team stem" activities related to space flight, emergency management, weather, or energy and the environment. Our flight directors connect to hundreds of distant classrooms each year.
$167,632 spent21% of program spendingOff-site programs and teacher professional development - the organization provides more than 50 days of portable planetarium shows at elementary schools and public science events. This low cost-per-student activity gives schools a "field trip" for the entire school without incurring the cost and administrative work required for bus trips. The organization also focuses on providing world-class stem teacher professional development. A decade-long summer program known as stem bootcamp engages 100+ primary teachers per year in hands-on methods for stem and project-based learning.
$61,253 spent8% of program spendingOther programs including bootcamp, girls in stem, maker space, public weekend, summer camp, and other small programs.
$281,400 spent36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $784,382.
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 2017 to 2018, from $940k to $1.3M (+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: 2017 55% · 2021 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $55k → $82k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC’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 CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 71% · 2019 60% · 2020 46% · 2021 61% · 2022 46% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
80% of COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC'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 $108k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $153k on record.
- Department of Defense$153k
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 CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC?
- COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,776 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($220,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $548,776 in grants to COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO CONSORTIUM FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION INC 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 10 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