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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY (Colorado) receives grants from 268 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,726,363 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($23,922,393). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$19M
Funders on record
268
Grants received
$63M
Net assets
$82M
79/268 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY 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 programCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY 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

$96M

Recipients

755

Contributions on record

$64M

Donors on record

267

Payments out are 1.51x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($9.0M) Net assets 100 ($59M)2018 Revenue 70 ($11M) Expenses 113 ($10M) Net assets 92 ($54M)2019 Revenue 75 ($11M) Expenses 98 ($8.9M) Net assets 106 ($63M)2020 Revenue 128 ($19M) Expenses 153 ($14M) Net assets 121 ($71M)2021 Revenue 172 ($26M) Expenses 160 ($14M) Net assets 142 ($84M)2022 Revenue 344 ($52M) Expenses 292 ($26M) Net assets 164 ($97M)2023 Revenue 72 ($11M) Expenses 302 ($27M) Net assets 145 ($86M)2024 Revenue 128 ($19M) Expenses 196 ($18M) Net assets 139 ($82M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (196)Net assets (139)

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 $93M to $108M (+15%).

$65M
$61M
$70M
$80M
$93M
$108M
$98M
$96M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.1M
’17
$415k
’18
$2.4M
’19
$5.5M
’20
$12M
’21
$26M
’22
−$16M
’23
$1.7M
’24
6.3
months of
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

Tatiana Hernandez

CEO

Board chair

Scott Beard

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2723242622191819
Joined·+6+5+8+5+4+5+5
No longer listed·10469764
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $8.1M → $1.6M.

59 of 268 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tcfso). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY raised.

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 268 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

80% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY'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 $12M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 33 states.

NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Spruce Street LLC · disregarded
  • Tcfso · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrusts · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY (Colorado) receives grants from 268 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,726,363 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($23,922,393). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 268 organizations giving $62,726,363 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY?
Greater Horizons is the largest funder on record, with $23,922,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY 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 268 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