Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION
COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,976 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,976). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Colorado Student Media Association does
Mission
To support student journalism in Colorado
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Contest judging administration website portal for entries - about 1000 students earned recognition in our individual contests and 91 student media received critiques for work from the 2023-24 school year
$5,375 spent30% of program spendingScholarships - provided to support 8 students and 5 scholastic programs
$9,000 spent50% of program spendingState journalism conference J-Day at CU for all member media with sessions and awards attended by about 1400 students and advisers
$3,500 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,875.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $154k to $181k (+18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jed Palmer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION’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 STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Organizations like COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION
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.
Public support
92%
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 STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION: 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 STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION?
- COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,976 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,976). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,976 in grants to COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO STUDENT MEDIA ASSOCIATION 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 2021–2025), 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