Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION
COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,513 to it, the largest being HOLMES FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Colorado State Fire Fighters Foundation does
Mission
Purposes. The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious,educational and/or scientific purposes within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, and to the corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws (code). To the extent not inconsistent with the foregoing, the specific purposes for which this corporation is organized shall include, without limitation, the following: 7.1.1 to raise funds to support the needs of families of injured or fallen firefighters and other first responders in colorado. 7.1.2 to raise funds to make grants or scholarships to support the further education of first responders and of family members of injured or fallen firefighters and other first responders in colorado. 7.1.3 to educate and promote firefighter safety. 7.1.4 to provide training and education in fire safety, including scholarships for such training, to firefighters and other first responders. 7.1.5 to engage in such activities as sh
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support and scholarships for fire fighters. There were 723 firefighters who received training assistance, 9 who received death benefits and or medical assistance, and there was assistnace for 0 visits related to mental health support.
$108,215 spentof which $14,080 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,215.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $151k to $64k (−58%).
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.
0% of COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $2k → $387.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION’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 STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 43% · 2023 52% — 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
57% of COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 75% 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
COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $705 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS 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
70% 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 STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: 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 STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,513 to it, the largest being HOLMES FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $21,513 in grants to COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO STATE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION?
- HOLMES FOUNDATION INC 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 STATE FIRE FIGHTERS 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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