Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER
COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,853 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,459,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Colorado Rural Health Center does
Mission
To enhance healthcare services in the state by providing information, education, linkages, tools and energy towards addressing rural health issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RURAL CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM:The Rural Connectivity Program was designed to develop a sustainable model for affordable health information management and technology infrastructure, shared analytics, and technical support for rural healthcare facilities. The goal for the Rural Connectivity Program is to enable safety-net rural health clinics such as Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Non-Certified/Independent Rural Health Clinics, and qualifying rural PPS hospitals to make data-driven improvements to patient care by leveraging two primary technologies: Analytics and Health Information Exchange.CRHC provides continual outreach and technical assistance to rural facilities to improve the engagement and use of analytics, which includes support of dashboards and connection to the health information exchange. CRHC emphasizes the importance of utilizing quality data to inform changes and improvements. Heres what we accomplished this year:Platform Additions and Upgrades - Launched the Child & Youth dashboard in the Community Analytics Platform Unlocking new data insights into pay for performance childrens health metrics via the Rural Well-Child KPI report. -…
$1,931,861 spentof which $309,392 as grants$3,986,451 earned by the program59% of program spendingSNAPSHOT OF RURAL HEALTH:As Colorados State Office of Rural Health and member-based association for rural health facilities, CRHC is a clearinghouse for rural health information and resources, helping providers throughout Colorado enhance healthcare services available in rural communities, and helping elected officials make informed decisions about healthcare policy.The 2025 edition of its Snapshot of Rural Health was released in January 2025. Each year, the publication highlights rural health data such as demographic trends, chronic disease, the rural healthcare delivery system, substance use, and the rural economy using infographic data visualization, case studies, text, and maps. The 2025 edition of the Snapshot is the largest volume yet. The report has expanded analysis of healthcare in rural Colorado, illustrated with useful statistics, data, and maps that can all be used for education, advocacy, and grant writing. This year, the report analyzes 29 different topics and features 55 maps, all in a digestible visual format with rigorous citations. The 2025 edition expanded coverage of chronic disease in rural Colorado and analyzes rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) deserts…
$1,083,851 spent33% of program spendingADVOCACY:The 2025 Colorado legislative session convened on January 14, 2025, and ended 120 days later. This session was marked by a significant state budget shortfall, pushback to proposals from the federal Administration, and a historical battle between Colorado hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry. Of the 657 bills introduced, 476 bills (72%) passed, and Governor Polis vetoed 11 bills. The Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) tracked 93 bills and took positions on 25 bills with 93% of the bills CRHC supported passing. The Policy and Legislative Committee is a board lead committee with CRHC Director of Policy and Advocacy providing support for this committee including tracking bills pertinent to rural communities in Colorado. CRHC bill positions are decided by majority vote of the CRHC Policy and Legislative Committee (PLC) and approved by the CRHC Board of Directors. CRHC uses a bill tracker which contains links to Colorado Capitol Watch, where you can find the most recent bill text, fiscal note, bill history and bill sponsors. CRHC regularly publishes policy information in the monthly Special Delivery to inform members, partners and collaborators on policy related…
$252,511 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,268,223.
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.
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 $2.2M to $3.5M (+54%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 43% · 2019 48% · 2020 87% · 2021 50% · 2022 82% · 2023 64% · 2024 51% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Mills
CEO
Board chair
Tammy Dunker
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $359k → $234k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 RURAL HEALTH CENTER’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 RURAL HEALTH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 71% · 2021 81% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% — 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
38% of COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
91% of COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k 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.
Against its field
COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$80k
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.
Organizations like COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 RURAL HEALTH CENTER: 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 RURAL HEALTH CENTER?
- COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,853 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,459,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,192,853 in grants to COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,459,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER 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 11 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