Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,395,721 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,282,064). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The colorado mountain college foundation builds sustainable community support for the needs and strategic priorities of colorado mountain college and its students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants made to individuals represent the prioritized fundraising focus of the colorado mountain college (cmc) foundation, enabling students the opportunity to pursue their college and career goals with the assistance of scholarship support. In fiscal year 2025, more than 700 students collectively received 2.02m in foundation scholarship support, a 41% increase over the year's prior successful year of 1.44m distributed. With the addition of five new endowments established in fy25, for a total of 73; representing 20.3m in endowed scholarship support. Cmc foundation scholarships are funded through generous gifts from individuals; including 50% of cmc's faculty and staff, alumni, foundations, and business and community partners who value how far a scholarship can go at colorado mountain college with our low-cost tuition and high-quality degree and certificate programs and the life-changing impact a scholarship has on its recipient. Scholarships have been established to honor former students, faculty and staff members, and friends of colorado mountain college. They are administered by the cmc foundation and community volunteers who assist with the selection process of recipients.…
$2,021,681 spentof which $2,021,681 as grants42% of program spendingColorado mountain college, a dual mission college, offering certificates, associate, and bachelor's degrees, seeks to be the most inclusive, innovative, and student-centered college in the nation. Fiscal year '25 was the first time since 2017 that a new capital campaign was not introduced by the college, thus capital donations were down year over year. Pledge payments for the highly successful 7.2 million "rural nursing success fund," that had run the previous five fiscal years, supporting the completion of three high-fidelity nursing simulation labs, acquisition of new simulation technology, and increased nursing scholarships, were finalized. Pledges from the successful "the promise of spring valley" 5m capital campaign, completed in fy22, also tapered off, with successful fulfillment. The cmc foundation continued to additionally collect on the 1.5m raised in support of a new oral health clinic, in fiscal year '24, in support of our dental hygiene students, who will offer preventative care at the cmc vail valley at edwards campus as part of their curriculum. Donations to cmc's rural teacher fellowship program continue to be of interest to donors as well. This program is designed…
$2,510,817 spentof which $2,510,817 as grants52% of program spendingColorado mountain college offers 7 academic pathways with more than 130 programs. Dynamic combinations of degrees (including 8 bachelor's degrees), certificates, minors, and specialties empower students to explore opportunities and choose their own adventure. Cmc's recent prominent designations: hispanic serving institution (hsi), hunger-free campus, and healthy minds, continue to drive important strategic decisions and prioritization. Donations to cmc via the cmc foundation help to make these transformational outcomes possible. The federal government designated colorado mountain college as an hsi in 2021 after years of deliberate efforts to grow cmc's student body to be 25% or more latino (now at 41%), reflecting the demographics of our mountain communities. Cmc is the first hsi located in colorado's rural, high-cost mountain resort region. Cmc foundation scholarships for underserved students continue to grow as well in support of all students and is reflected in the 41% growth of our scholarship support. The hunger-free campus designation came in large part thanks to the food pantries piloted by the cmc foundation at the vail valley at edwards campus, which was then replicated…
$295,762 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,828,260.
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.
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 $22M to $28M (+26%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Rob Levine
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $255k → $3.9M.
23 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 funders by total. 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 MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 21% · 2019 50% · 2020 22% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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. 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
75% of COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Colorado Mountain College · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,395,721 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,282,064). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $11,395,721 in grants to COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,282,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 76 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