Colorado · Nonprofit
Columbine Community Foundation
Columbine Community Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,628,394 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($1,658,011). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Columbine Community Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Columbine Community Foundation administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programColumbine Community Foundation runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$11M
Recipients
0
Contributions on record
$5.6M
Donors on record
68
Payments out are 1.89x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Colorado Grand Inclocalportfolio match
- Grand Beginningslocal
- Golden Civic Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 55% · 2018 30% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $486k → $424k.
17 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Columbine Community Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. 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
59% of Columbine Community Foundation'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. Of the $2.3M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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.
Funders to approach
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 67 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Colorado Grand Inclocalportfolio matchCO · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Grand BeginningslocalCO · funds 6 organizations near you
- Golden Civic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Association of Lions 3602portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boettcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Incshared funderslocalCO · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
- Menhennett FoundationlocalCO · funds 7 organizations near you
- Middle Park Medical FoundationlocalCO · funds 2 organizations near you
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Columbine Community 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Columbine Community Foundation?
- Columbine Community Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,628,394 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($1,658,011). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Columbine Community Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Columbine Community Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $5,628,394 in grants to Columbine Community Foundation, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbine Community Foundation?
- COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,658,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbine Community 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.
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 67funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing