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COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION

COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$101k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$763k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Colorado Nurses Foundation does

Mission

To provide a means for nurses, other health care providers and consumers to work together for quality health care.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Educational grants, professional development grants, scholarships and cnf acknowledgements.

    $6,649 spent
    6% of program spending
  2. Educational grants, professional development grants, scholarships and cnf acknowledgements

    $100,917 spent
    94% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $107,566.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($826k)2018 Revenue 151 ($84k) Expenses 135 ($88k) Net assets 92 ($763k)2019 Revenue 148 ($83k) Expenses 141 ($92k) Net assets 103 ($847k)2020 Revenue 155 ($86k) Expenses 186 ($121k) Net assets 103 ($850k)2021 Revenue 208 ($116k) Expenses 151 ($98k) Net assets 109 ($900k)2022 Revenue 278 ($155k) Expenses 255 ($166k) Net assets 88 ($730k)2023 Revenue 160 ($90k) Expenses 169 ($110k) Net assets 91 ($754k)2024 Revenue 181 ($101k) Expenses 254 ($165k) Net assets 92 ($763k)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (254)Net assets (92)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $900k to $730k (−19%).

$826k
$763k
$847k
$850k
$900k
$730k
$774k
$785k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$9k
’19
−$34k
’20
$18k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$64k
’24
57
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.

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Listed121213111010128
Joined·+0+1+4+1+0+3+0
No longer listed·0062014
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION’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 NURSES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 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

COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.

MN
CO

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

’20
’21
’22
Michigan out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 0%Fundraising 45%

Governance

12
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 NURSES FOUNDATION?
COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION?
Chris & Joy Dinsdale Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLORADO NURSES FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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