Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO LIGHTNING
COLORADO LIGHTNING (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,030 to it, the largest being YOUNG ATHLETE FOUNDATION ($13,030). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $257k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $105k
What Colorado Lightning does
Mission
The primary purpose of the colorado lighting is to educate amateur athletes in sports in order to combat juvinile delinquency
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Colorado Lightning is a religious basketball club program serving the underserved community in the denver metro area and providing after-school basketball training and coaching of both boys and girls basketball for grades k-12th grade. This year we were able to serve a little over 140 athletes and coach and train them 1-4 hours per week on average. Based on the season, we have 9-14 teams that play games most weekends throughout the year. First program service accomplishments description - part iii line 28 (statement 4) the Colorado Lightning is a religious basketball club program serving the underserved community in the denver metro area and providing after-school basketball training and coaching of both boys and girls basketball for grades k-12th grade. This year we were able to serve a little over 140 athletes and coach and train them 1-4 hours per week on average. Based on the season, we have 9-14 teams that play games most weekends throughout the year
$247,840 spent$254,513 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $247,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $26k to $82k (+222%).
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.
99% of COLORADO LIGHTNING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO LIGHTNING’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.
Where its funders are
100% of COLORADO LIGHTNING's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LIGHTNING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO LIGHTNING
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO LIGHTNING: 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 LIGHTNING?
- COLORADO LIGHTNING (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,030 to it, the largest being YOUNG ATHLETE FOUNDATION ($13,030). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO LIGHTNING have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,030 in grants to COLORADO LIGHTNING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO LIGHTNING?
- YOUNG ATHLETE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO LIGHTNING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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