Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY
COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,271 to it, the largest being PEMA FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $400k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Colorado Longitudinal Study does
Mission
Advancing the health of people through advancing the science of medicine. The Colorado Longitudinal Study (cols) is building the world's most comprehensive longitudinal collection of biological specimens matched with clinical health and social determinants of health data. This data will enable researchers to study the complex relationships that determine health, leading to unprecedented advances in health, health care, and health equity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, cols continued to strengthen its organizational infrastructure and advance its mission through strategic partnerships, participant engagement, and program growth. Building on the successful leadership transition initiated in 2024, the organization maintained continuity across staff and board leadership while continuing to retain key talent and institutional knowledge. The board of directors and staff remained focused on expanding participant engagement within the cols program. A continued emphasis was placed on re- engaging prior participants to further strengthen the longitudinal impact and integrity of the study. These efforts supported sustained participant retention and enhanced the organization's ability to collect meaningful long-term data. During 2025, cols also expanded its external partnerships and collaborative initiatives. Most notably, cols began a collaboration with the clinton foundation to explore opportunities for increased community engagement, awareness, and support surrounding healthy aging and longitudinal research initiatives. In addition, cols continued its longstanding collaboration with colorado state university's columbine health systems center…
$283,878 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $283,878.
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 2023 to 2024, from $653k to $152k (−77%).
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 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lawrence Gold Phd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $184.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LONGITUDINAL STUDY’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 LONGITUDINAL STUDY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 67% · 2021 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
88% of COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY: 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 LONGITUDINAL STUDY?
- COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,271 to it, the largest being PEMA FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $78,271 in grants to COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY?
- PEMA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO LONGITUDINAL STUDY 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 5 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