Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $349 to it, the largest being EL POMAR FOUNDATION ($293). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & Serlocalportfolio match
- Colorado Springs Health Foundationshared funders
- Ready Coloradoportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $298 → $24.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’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 LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & Serlocalportfolio matchCO · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Springs Health Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Ready Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bee Vradenburg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Stanley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roof F T Charportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bessie Minor Swift Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denver Rotary Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Community College System Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperity Denver Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teget Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $349 to it, the largest being EL POMAR FOUNDATION ($293). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $349 in grants to COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- EL POMAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing