Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE
COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,724,161 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($6,848,851). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Colorado Health Institute does
Program
The Colorado Health Institute (chi) believes that good health policy leads to a healthier colorado. Every day we bring research, insight, and expertise to leaders across the state because informed decisions lead to better health for all. Chi is a not-for-profit corporation established in november 2002, to fill a need for nonpartisan, independent data and evidence-based analysis to support decision-makers. Today, we provide not just analysis and data, but strategic planning, facilitation, complex modeling, evaluation, and strategic communication. Chi provides health data and research at no charge to the public through its website and many projects. It provides this information to the public in collaboration with the state of colorado, philanthropic partners, and other stakeholders in the public health arena.
$5,182,301 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2018 to 2019, from $5.1M to $8.5M (+67%).
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
Sara Schmitt
Pres & CEO
Board chair
Jeffrey Moser
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.8M.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HEALTH INSTITUTE’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 HEALTH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 HEALTH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 59% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 63% · 2022 30% · 2023 57% — 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
32% of COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
93% of COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 HEALTH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: 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 HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,724,161 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($6,848,851). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $15,724,161 in grants to COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,848,851 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing