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COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM

COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,181 to it, the largest being LARIMER COUNTY FARM BUREAU ($71,710). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$284k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$140k
Net assets
$84k
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Colorado Foundation for Agriculture Inc Colorado Agriculture in the Classroom does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Colorado reader: a student activity newspaper geared towards upper elementary students, and also used by middle and high school teachers. Each issue covers a different agriculture or natural resource topic and is provided free of charge. A total of 65,000 copies of each issue were printed and directly mailed to classrooms 3 times during the year, for a total of 195,000 copies issued.

    $31,994 spent$52,000 earned by the program
    34% of program spending
  2. Literacy project: the literacy project is an annual interactive learning experience where each participating class receives a free class kit complete with educational resources and enough supplies to complete hands-on activities with students. This program integrates agricultural themes into prek-12 instruction, connecting to academic standards for language arts, social studies, stem, and afnr. This project seeks to cultivate a love for reading while enhancing the understanding of agricultural concepts, ultimately fostering empowered and literate communities. A new topic and book, featuring colorado agriculture stories, are chosen each year. This is a free program for prek-12 students. This year the literacy kits were distributed to 2500 classrooms and a total of 43,000 students.

    $45,753 spent$89,539 earned by the program
    49% of program spending
  3. Summer agriculture institutes: the summer agriculture institutes are multi-day professional development courses designed for teachers. Attendees learn about colorado agriculture, tour farms, ranches, and food production facilities, and gain innovative, standards-based ways to incorporate food, fiber, fuel, and natural resource topics into academic curriculum. Two courses are offered each year in different locations across colorado. A total of 47 teachers and 76 agricultural producers/presenters received training through these two professional development events.

    $11,191 spent$25,862 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  4. Other programs throughout the year included classroom visits, water festivals, and various conferences and informational booths.

    $3,846 spent$48,237 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,784.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($148k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($182k)2021 Revenue 69 ($102k) Expenses 98 ($140k) Net assets 79 ($144k)2022 Revenue 159 ($235k) Expenses 148 ($213k) Net assets 91 ($165k)2023 Revenue 146 ($216k) Expenses 162 ($233k) Net assets 84 ($154k)2024 Revenue 155 ($229k) Expenses 177 ($254k) Net assets 78 ($143k)2025 Revenue 193 ($284k) Expenses 250 ($359k) Net assets 46 ($84k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (193)Expenses (250)Net assets (46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $156k to $110k (−29%).

$183k
$153k
$179k
$159k
$156k
$110k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’20
−$38k
’21
$22k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$25k
’24
−$74k
’25
1.2
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed9788
Joined·+0+3+1
No longer listed·221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $17k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM’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 FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM.

51%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 70% · 2021 77% · 2022 34% · 2023 99% — 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.

Where its funders are

89% of COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
CO
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.

Federal$12k
grants $12kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$12k

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.

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In Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

26% of spending goes to programs.

Program 26%Management 73%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM?
COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,181 to it, the largest being LARIMER COUNTY FARM BUREAU ($71,710). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $140,181 in grants to COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM?
LARIMER COUNTY FARM BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $71,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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