Colorado · Nonprofit
DANIELS FUND
DANIELS FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,556 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ($380,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $185M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $1.4B
What Daniels Fund does
Program
Daniels Fund scholarship program - the Daniels Fund scholarship program consists of two distinct college scholarship programs. The daniels scholarship program provides four-year college scholarships to graduating high school seniors who demonstrate exceptional character, leadership, a commitment to serving their communities, well-rounded personality, and emotional maturity. The boundless opportunity scholarship program provides funding to select colleges and universities to offer scholarships directly to their non-traditional students.
$13,975,558 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3B to $1.4B (+7%).
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
Hanna Skandera
President & chief executive officer
Board chair
John Suthers
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $381k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of DANIELS FUND’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
DANIELS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 DANIELS FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
DANIELS FUND draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DANIELS FUND is better cushioned than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like DANIELS FUND
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANIELS FUND: 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 DANIELS FUND?
- DANIELS FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,556 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ($380,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANIELS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $414,556 in grants to DANIELS FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANIELS FUND?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH is the largest funder on record, with $380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANIELS FUND 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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