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COLORADO METH PROJECT

COLORADO METH PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,026,990 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($973,625). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$1.8M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Colorado Meth Project does

Mission

Rise above colorado is a statewide prevention organization that measurably impacts teen perceptions and attitudes about the risks of substance misuse to empower youth to make healthy connections, decisions, and change.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. A. Delivered a saturation-level public messaging campaign that reached more than 80% of coloradans in our 12-17 target demographic with a significant frequency. B. Continued establishing community partnerships with local substance abuse coalitions, schools and youth-serving agencies in all regions of colorado, and delivered prescription drug & meth prevention curriculum directly to more than 10,000 teens across the state. C. Rise above colorado social media platforms created awareness among more than 320,000 colorado youth 12-17 (60% of population)

    $1,286,214 spent$64,690 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,286,214.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 123 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 86 ($1.2M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 82 ($1.2M) Expenses 101 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 92 ($1.3M) Expenses 94 ($1.1M) Net assets 126 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 113 ($1.3M) Net assets 127 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 146 ($1.7M) Net assets 110 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 113 ($1.6M) Expenses 130 ($1.5M) Net assets 126 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 134 ($1.9M) Expenses 142 ($1.6M) Net assets 161 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (142)Net assets (161)Peer revenue range

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 $1.2M to $1.5M (+32%).

$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 56% · 2019 67% · 2020 46% · 2021 38% · 2022 40% · 2023 29% · 2024 45% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of COLORADO METH PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$272k
’17
$4k
’18
$4k
’19
$2k
’20
$240k
’21
$111k
’22
−$267k
’23
$104k
’24
$273k
’25
2.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Kent Maclennan

Exec dir/sec

Board chair

Amy Graham

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed910101110101099
Joined·+2+1+1+0+3+2+2+1
No longer listed·11013231
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $121k → $1.1M.

3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 METH PROJECT’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 METH PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 METH PROJECT.

32%
largest funder
78%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 54% · 2022 37% · 2023 51% — 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

50% of COLORADO METH PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

97% of COLORADO METH PROJECT's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

OH
CA
CO
MO
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COLORADO METH PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding COLORADO METH PROJECT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.

Federal$500k
grants $500kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$500k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 11%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

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 METH PROJECT?
COLORADO METH PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,026,990 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($973,625). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLORADO METH PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,026,990 in grants to COLORADO METH PROJECT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLORADO METH PROJECT?
CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $973,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLORADO METH PROJECT 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 18 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