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COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES

COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$228k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$163k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Colorado Society of Association Executives does

Mission

Advancement of the profession of association management and professional development and resources for the professionals in the industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Twice-monthly professional roundtables facilitated by association leaders and professionals to create collaboration to share ideas and resources that help all members continually improve and serve members.

  2. A new twice-year symposium focused on the future of associations and delivered in the denver metro area to engage association professionals in topics and collaboration to provide foward-thinking content and insight. An annual conference in june to provide multiple days of content, speakers and collaboration.

  3. Twice-monthly webinars developed in partnership with other similar organizations across the u.s. To deliver unique and on-demand content for those professionals seeking additional information. Nearly monthly social events to create working relationships between all members and prospective members. Csae is also a registered cae provider by the asae, and follows standards of excellence in developing content for association professionals.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($246k) Expenses 100 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($204k)2018 Revenue 98 ($242k) Expenses 89 ($220k) Net assets 111 ($227k)2019 Revenue 105 ($259k) Expenses 101 ($248k) Net assets 116 ($238k)2020 Revenue 69 ($171k) Expenses 85 ($209k) Net assets 98 ($200k)2021 Revenue 87 ($215k) Expenses 77 ($189k) Net assets 110 ($225k)2022 Revenue 77 ($189k) Expenses 86 ($212k) Net assets 92 ($188k)2023 Revenue 63 ($155k) Expenses 94 ($232k) Net assets 55 ($111k)2024 Revenue 89 ($218k) Expenses 78 ($192k) Net assets 68 ($138k)2025 Revenue 93 ($228k) Expenses 83 ($204k) Net assets 80 ($163k)
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Revenue (93)Expenses (83)Net assets (80)

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 $284k to $220k (−22%).

$303k
$308k
$301k
$278k
$284k
$220k
$190k
$203k
$239k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$130
’17
$23k
’18
$11k
’19
−$38k
’20
$26k
’21
−$23k
’22
−$77k
’23
$27k
’24
$25k
’25
14
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.

Chief executive

Su Hawk

Executive director

Board chair

Paul Caputo

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131313131415131415
Joined·+4+6+8+3+1+4+7+6
No longer listed·46820665
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
$15k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES’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.

Where its funders are

100% of COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES?
COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES.
Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES?
COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLORADO SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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