Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE
COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,854 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($162,735). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $550k
- Net assets
- $833k
What Colorado High School Cycling League does
Mission
The Colorado High School Cycling League works to establish and maintain safe, quality high school mountain bike programs in colorado and surrounding states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Colorado High School Cycling League promotes positive youth development through interscholastic mountain biking for youth in Colorado, southern Wyoming, Spearfish, South Dakota, and northern New Mexico. We believe in a culture of inclusivity and that all students should be supported in their ability to participate. We provide an exceptional mountain bike race series, a festive community experience, training, insurance and support to teams and coaches, regardless of experience or level of expertise, and a comprehensive infrastructure that fosters safe respectful competition, highlighted by the common goal to develop a lifelong appreciation of the outdoors. The purpose is to empower youth and build community. We are guided by the principles of inclusivity, equality and stewardship. In 2024, the Colorado League provided programming to 87 teams representing approximately 180 high schools and 1,980 student-athletes.
$1,157,934 spent$839,297 earned by the program95% of program spendingHosted 17 coach clinics for a total of 219 attendees. The clinics emphasize effective ways to teach skills, support team development and sustainability, risk management and various other sessions related to coaching and positive youth development.
$23,874 spent$15,526 earned by the program2% of program spendingScholarship program: 92 student athletes, 141 coaches, and 27 teams received scholarships for events. A total of $66,121 of scholarships were in the form of discounted program and clinic entry fees
$30,931 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,212,739.
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 2020 to 2021, from $560k to $798k (+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: 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $23k → $47k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE’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 HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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 HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 47% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 54% · 2022 71% · 2023 42% — 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
36% of COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
60% of COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE?
- COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,854 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($162,735). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $549,854 in grants to COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $162,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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