Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC
COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,151,468 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($1,797,346). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $396k
What Community Shares of Colorado Inc does
Mission
We connect coloradans to the charities and causes they care about most. Our purpose is to raise and allocate money to the member organizations, increase public visibility of member organizations, promote cooperation between member organizations, and to provide a forum for diverse organizations to network.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Community giving campaign: the community giving campaign is the organization's primary program and is dedicated to raising funds for nonprofit organizations via workplace giving campaigns. The organization partners with businesses who invite employees to give either a cash gift or donation from each paycheck. The community giving campaign includes partnering with businesses to plan and implement giving campaigns, offering the option of making paycheck contributions or cash gifts to individual employees, and identifying potential new workplace partners.distributions: the calculation and disbursement of workplace contributions to nonprofit organizations, along with the distribution of campaign reports to nonprofit organizations.
$1,721,642 spentof which $1,598,984 as grants$127,977 earned by the program85% of program spendingColorado combined campaign: effective january 1, 2014, the organization began administering the colorado combined campaign (ccc). The ccc was authorized in june 1988 by executive order no. 86, establishment of the colorado statye employee advisory committee on charitable giving, to conduct an annual solicitation of state of colorado employees, which is known as the colorado combined campaign. The organization serves as the principal combined fundraising manager for the ccc and, by contract, collects all public support and charges the ccc for campaign and administrative expenses.
$117,440 spent6% of program spendingNon-profit sustainability: the non-profit sustainability program efficiently delivers leadership support to the nonprofit sector, with an emphasis on the sustainability of our member agencies. Services include technical assistance, professional development, leadership training, and network building. The executive leadership institute is a collection of 10 professionally facilitated peer-to-peer support groups for nonprofit professionals, providing professional learning, development, and connection.
$108,659 spent5% of program spendingOther program services 4: colorado combined campaign: effective january 1, 2014, the organization began administering the colorado combined campaign (ccc). The ccc was authorized in june 1988 by executive order no. 86, establishment of the colorado statye employee advisory committee on charitable giving, to conduct an annual solicitation of state of colorado employees, which is known as the colorado combined campaign. The organization serves as the principal combined fundraising manager for the ccc and, by contract, collects all public support and charges the ccc for campaign and administrative expenses.
$83,863 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,031,604.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.6M to $2.0M (−26%).
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 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $913k → $295k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SHARES OF COLORADO INC’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 SHARES OF COLORADO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 56% · 2019 69% · 2020 83% · 2021 82% · 2022 73% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 SHARES OF COLORADO INC's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,764 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,151,468 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($1,797,346). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,151,468 in grants to COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC?
- GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,797,346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 22 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