Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA
COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being Exponential Impact ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $35M
What Colorado Springs World Arena does
Mission
The Colorado Springs World Arena was organized to lessen the burdens of the city of colorado springs for the planning, design, construction, financing, development, ownership and operation of a multi-purpose public facility that could be used for a variety of sporting events, including basketball, ice skating, ice hockey and other activities and events held by sports organizations, educational institutions and the general public. In 2004, the Colorado Springs World Arena assumed management of the pikes peak center, which is a multi-purpose building owned by el paso county and used for cultural, community and performance arts events
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operation and maintenance of the Colorado Springs World Arena and ice hall.
$5,672,806 spent$4,948,807 earned by the program81% of program spendingOperation and maintenance of the pikes peak center.
$1,309,602 spent$2,526,131 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,982,408.
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 $32M to $38M (+22%).
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: 2021 59% · 2022 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Peter Susemihl
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $861k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest El Pomar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA raised.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA’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 SPRINGS WORLD ARENA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 SPRINGS WORLD ARENA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $615k on record.
- Department of Defense$615k
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 SPRINGS WORLD ARENA
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 SPRINGS WORLD ARENA: 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 SPRINGS WORLD ARENA?
- COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being Exponential Impact ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $90,000 in grants to COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA?
- Exponential Impact is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO SPRINGS WORLD ARENA 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 4 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