Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,841,702 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($37,656,850). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 132
- Grants received
- $70M
- Net assets
- $486M
What Colorado School of Mines Foundation does
Mission
To support the university, its academic programs, and its students, and to foster alumni relations. See schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide financial support to the colorado school of mines and its various departments.
$37,010,190 spentof which $37,010,190 as grants$3,482,751 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,010,190.
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 2020 to 2021, from $387M to $498M (+29%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Brian Winkelbauer
President/CEO
Board chair
Howard E Janzen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $4.7M.
37 of 132 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 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 SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 41% · 2019 17% · 2020 40% · 2021 68% · 2022 90% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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
53% of COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION'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
72% of COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $19M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Mines Venture Fund Management LLC · disregarded
- Mines Venture Fund Gp I LLC · disregarded
- Csmf Property Management Corp · exempt
- Csm Alumni Foundation Inc · exempt
- Mines Venture Fund I LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,841,702 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($37,656,850). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 132 organizations giving $69,841,702 in grants to COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $37,656,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 132 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