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Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation

Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,666 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$322k
Net assets
$2.1M
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation does

Mission

The Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation is a public charitable organization with emphasis toward underprivileged and at-risk youth through programs for youth baseball, drug & alcohol awareness, health & violence prevention and education & literacy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver donation - provide programs for underprivileged youth.

    $125,000 spentof which $125,000 as grants
    10% of program spending

  2. Children's Hospital Colorado - help every child and family on their mental health journey

    $100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants
    8% of program spending

  3. Food Bank of the Rockies - to ignite the power of community to nourish people facing hunger.

    $100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants
    8% of program spending

  4. Denver Public Schools Foundation - to increase access and completion of post-high school learning, while also expanding generational exposure to career and entrepreneurial opportunities.

    $100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants
    8% of program spending

  5. Judi's House- support grieving children and their families

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  6. Gold Crown Foundation - support for mentoring low income inner city youth

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  7. Simmons Foundation for Youth & Change, Inc. - To help inner city youth build good self-esteem, and become productive community members .

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  8. Denver Dream Center - To Bring Hope to the Hopeless

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  9. Colorado Uplift - Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  10. Boys Hope Girls Hope of Colorado - to nurture and guide motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others.

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  11. Special Olympics Colorado - to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  12. Access Opportunity - to help our students make a positive impact on themselves, their families, and their communities.

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  13. Discover Art for Youth - Healing per coloring books to children in hospitals.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  14. Open Door Ministries - seeks to show mercy, build community, and make disciples for Christ in urban Denver as an outreach of Open Door Fellowship Church.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  15. CASA of Larimer County - advocates for children who have experienced abuse and neglect, supporting connections and providing resources to promote resilience.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  16. Anchor Center for Blind Children - provides exceptional, high-quality early intervention; special education; developmental assessment and therapy for blind children

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  17. Urban Peak - ignites the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  18. Volunteers of America - to reach and uplift all people and bring them to the knowledge and active service of God.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  19. Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain Inc. - to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  20. Boulder Voices for Children Inc. - trained court-appointed special advocates (CASAs) to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect in Boulder County.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  21. Girls Inc. of Metro Denver - to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  22. Dry Bones Denver - elping to meet emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of houseless youth and young adults in Denver metro area

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  23. Denver Scholarship Foundation - inspires and empowers Denver Public Schools (DPS) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education, by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources essential for success.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  24. Daddy Bruce Randolph Legacy Foundation - to build stronger communities and cultivate future compassionate leadership.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  25. Boy Scouts of America - to equip and empower youth to become leaders by fostering personal growth, ethical decision-making, and community service through outdoor adventure.

    $25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  26. Jackie Robinson Foundation - Work to level the playing field in education and promote the humanitarian values that defined Robinsons life.

    $20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

  27. Crosswalk Fellowship - to provide quality inspirational programs in safe relational environments.

    $15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  28. American Military Family - support veterans, first responders, and their families by providing the resources they need to overcome lifes critical challenges

    $15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  29. Soldiers' Angels - to provide aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.

    $15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  30. Samaritan House - improving the lives of everyone we serve.

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  31. Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community - to promote development within the Community and to enable a viable economy for the Community so that it survives and prospers independently.

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  32. Dream on 3, Rocky Mountain - to create experiences of joy, hope, and encouragement for children and young adults with life-altering conditions through the world of sports

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  33. Denver's Children Foundation - to develop philanthropic leaders who mobilize the community to impact the lives of disadvantaged children

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  34. The Gabby Krause Foundation Bags of Fun - to deliver a Bag of Fun to every child fighting a critical, long-term and life-threatening condition.

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  35. Chanda Center for Health - to deliver, advocate & educate for integrative therapy and other complementary services to reduce health disparities and costs by improving health equity and outcomes for individuals with physical disabilities

    $10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  36. Colorado Springs Sports Corporation- promote youth sports

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

  37. Latin American Educational Foundation - to provide access to higher education for Hispanic and Latino students in Colorado.

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

  38. Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation - to keep the "American Dream" of earning a college degree alive by fostering equity, diversity, and social mobility

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

  39. Carey School of Basketball - to provide an in-depth educational approach to basketball for low income students, to not only create fundamentally sound basketball players, but productive members of society.

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

  40. Colorado Parks Recreation Association - to promote recreational programs for youth.

    $2,750 spentof which $2,750 as grants
    0% of program spending

  41. JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation - to support Colorado families dealing with cancer.

    $2,500 spentof which $2,500 as grants
    0% of program spending

  42. The Help and Hope Center - to provide food, clothing, and financial aid to the needy

    $2,400 spentof which $2,400 as grants
    0% of program spending

  43. Light of the World Catholic Church - to provide meals to the needy

    $2,400 spentof which $2,400 as grants
    0% of program spending

  44. The Salvation Army - Ft. Collins - to provide essential support including food, shelter, addiction recovery, and youth services

    $2,400 spentof which $2,400 as grants
    0% of program spending

  45. Beyond Home - to empower working families experiencing or at risk of homelessness to achieve lasting stability and self-sufficiency

    $2,400 spentof which $2,400 as grants
    0% of program spending

  46. Covenant Cupboard Food Pantry - to address the food security needs of seniors, disabled individuals, and low-income or underemployed households in the community

    $2,400 spentof which $2,400 as grants
    0% of program spending

  47. Project Angel Heart - to prepare and deliver medically tailored meals to people living with severe illnesses.

    $1,500 spentof which $1,500 as grants
    0% of program spending

  48. McBackpack, Inc. - to ensure that a child's ability to learn is not compromised by the lack of nourishing food over the weekend

    $1,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 48 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,314,750.

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 ($331k) Expenses 100 ($169k) Net assets 100 ($444k)2018 Revenue 155 ($513k) Expenses 81 ($137k) Net assets 185 ($820k)2019 Revenue 345 ($1.1M) Expenses 193 ($325k) Net assets 368 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 238 ($788k) Expenses 721 ($1.2M) Net assets 272 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 655 ($2.2M) Expenses 767 ($1.3M) Net assets 469 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 149 ($491k) Expenses 389 ($656k) Net assets 432 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 302 ($999k) Expenses 427 ($720k) Net assets 495 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 329 ($1.1M) Expenses 728 ($1.2M) Net assets 464 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (329)Expenses (728)Net assets (464)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 $2.1M (+72%).

$444k
$820k
$1.6M
$1.2M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.1M
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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

95% of Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$162k
’17
$376k
’18
$816k
’19
−$427k
’20
$874k
’21
−$164k
’22
$279k
’23
−$137k
’24
20
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.

Board chair

Marne Obernauer

Director/Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed559999119
Joined·+0+4+0+0+1+2+0
No longer listed·0000102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $20k.

Funder
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'21
'23
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total
funders
1
1
2
4
4
1
1

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Rockies Baseball Club 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 Rockies Baseball Club Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

90% 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 Rockies Baseball Club Foundation.

31%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2023 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

63% of Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
NY
CA
CO
DE

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

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’21
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Rockies Baseball Club Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve20.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Colorado Rockies Baseball Club 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 Colorado

Patrick B Roche Memorial Fund Foundation77%Colorado Boys Ranch Foundation76%Colorado Outlaws Baseball Ltd76%Monument Hill Foundation76%Kroenke Sports Charities Inc75%Little League Baseball Inc75%Rmo Golf Inc75%Colorado Dream Foundation75%

Nationally

St Louis Cardinals Community Fund78%Patrick B Roche Memorial Fund Foundation77%Culver City Rotary Community Foundation76%Colorado Boys Ranch Foundation76%Colorado Outlaws Baseball Ltd76%Reggie Smith Foundation Inc76%Monument Hill Foundation76%Miami Marlins Foundation Inc76%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Ltd · partnership
  • Colorado Baseball 1993 Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation?
Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,666 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $321,666 in grants to Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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