Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY (Colorado) receives grants from 264 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,631,772 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($23,922,393). 78 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.
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
754
Contributions on record
$64M
Donors on record
264
Payments out are 1.51x 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.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- Community Shares of Colorado Incportfolio match
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $8.1M → $1.6M.
58 of 264 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 264 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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 statesis 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 264 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 197 organizations that share your funders
- Community Shares of Colorado Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 127 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Bergen Countyshared fundersNJ · backs 122 organizations that share your funders
- The Pew Charitable Trustsshared fundersDC · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- Ernst & Young Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Gates Family Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY (Colorado) receives grants from 264 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,631,772 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($23,922,393). 78 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 264 organizations giving $62,631,772 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY, 78 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 264funders 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