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Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION (Colorado) is funded by 127 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $58,303,221 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($31,440,019). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 655 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
73% of COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$102k from 5 funders in 2025, up from $377k and 14 in 2017.
37 of 127 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 127 funders by total. Association, not causation.
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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 41% · 2019 17% · 2020 40% · 2021 67% · 2022 90% · 2023 28% · 2024 33% · 2025 54% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
41% of COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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.
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 127 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
72% of spending goes to programs.
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 14 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 127funders 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. view filing