Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY BUILDERS
COMMUNITY BUILDERS (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,260,748 to it, the largest being GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($435,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $299k
What Community Builders does
Mission
We help people create successful, prosperous communities through training, information and assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Technical assistance: in 2024, cb provided direct assistance to communities throughout colorado. Our largest investments were for assistance projects in leadville/lake county, and also in the west end (a region that includes the western portions of montrose and san miguel counties). Both of these projects came through our competitive community assistance program that invites communities to apply for our support to address important needs and opportunities. Both of these are in-depth projects that include robust community engagement, capacity building, and community visioning and strategic planning. The project in leadville/lake county will create a shared community vision and integrated comprehensive plan. Both projects will last over 12 months. Our assistance work also included helping communities develop programs and policies to create more affordable homes in places like grand junction, granby, eagle, craig, montrose, alamosa, and limon. We assisted communities in campbell co. Wyoming and the west end (prior to the project noted above) with economic strategies to support those regions' economic transition away from coal. All of these projects advance the goals of our community…
$881,685 spent$373,760 earned by the program87% of program spendingTraining: in march of 2024, we hosted our 3-day building better places training (bbp). Bbp applies our award winning training model to bring teams of local leaders together to learn together and collaboratively develop community-driven solutions to local challenges. Bbp24 brought together leaders from five colorado communities (lake county, the west end region, the town of meeker, the colorado river valley region, and the town of silverton). Each community worked with a dedicated facilitation team and left with a detailed action strategy to carry forward back home. Two of these communities were then selected for our in-depth community assistance program, which provides technical support and capacity to carry out impactful community-driven projects in partnership with one or more local partners. The goals of our training program are to: 1) increase knowledge, competence, and leadership abilities of people who make/influence decisions about how the community grows and changes over time; and 2) help local leaders develop the partnerships, tools, inspiration, and direction they need to advance livability
$79,132 spent8% of program spendingTools & insights: in 2024, our team developed useful frameworks, graphics, and articles designed to provide communities with tactical resources they can use to build understanding and enable progress on important community and economic development topics. These projects advanced the goals of our tools and insights program, which are to provide stories, information, and tools to give communities resources and inspiration to build more livable places.
$57,544 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,018,361.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $1.8M (+43%).
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 51% · 2022 42% · 2023 78% · 2024 47% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of COMMUNITY BUILDERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Clark Anderson
Executive director
Board chair
Elyse Howard
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $154k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 COMMUNITY BUILDERS’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
COMMUNITY BUILDERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 50% · 2019 71% · 2020 48% · 2021 59% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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
67% of COMMUNITY BUILDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
86% of COMMUNITY BUILDERS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY BUILDERS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY BUILDERS
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY BUILDERS: 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 COMMUNITY BUILDERS?
- COMMUNITY BUILDERS (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,260,748 to it, the largest being GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($435,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY BUILDERS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,260,748 in grants to COMMUNITY BUILDERS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY BUILDERS?
- GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY BUILDERS 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 12 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