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Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY (Colorado) is funded by 72 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,463,894 in grants to it, the largest being SACCOMANNO HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($1,798,673). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,533 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,533 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
0% of COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (49% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $19k → $51k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
2 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MESA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. Association, not causation.
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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: 2017 50% · 2018 34% · 2019 50% · 2020 37% · 2021 56% · 2022 67% · 2023 64% · 2024 72% · 2025 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
26% of COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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.
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY is locally rooted: 90% of its grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 72 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
100% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 72funders 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. view filing