Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES
COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,500 to it, the largest being Ladybug Foundation Inc ($900,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $69k
What Colorado Rising for Communities does
Mission
Colorado rising (for communities) is powering a grassroots movement to protect our health, safety, quality of life, and the future of our climate from the harms and impacts of oil and gas operations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, colorado rising experienced a period of instability during which its financial needs and external pressures outpaced the capacity of its previous executive leadership. During this period, core fundraising and financial planning functions were not developed at the scale required, which contributed to a significant gap between programmatic ambition and available revenue. In response, the board took decisive action to stabilize the organization by changing leadership, strengthening financial controls, rebuilding fundraising infrastructure, and clarifying strategic priorities. The organization is now moving forward with a clearer governance model, stronger management systems, and leadership better matched to its current stage of growth and impact. This transition has been difficult, but it has also been a necessary step in ensuring that the organization can fulfill its mission with integrity, sustainability, and effectiveness.
$194,257 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $194,257.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $15k to $477k (+3075%).
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.
93% of COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $55k → $315k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 RISING FOR COMMUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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 RISING FOR COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2020 46% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% 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
94% of COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 RISING FOR COMMUNITIES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES
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.
Public support
21%
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 RISING FOR COMMUNITIES: 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 RISING FOR COMMUNITIES?
- COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,500 to it, the largest being Ladybug Foundation Inc ($900,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,123,500 in grants to COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES?
- Ladybug Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO RISING FOR COMMUNITIES 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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