Colorado · Nonprofit
Durango Education Foundation
Durango Education Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,190,556 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ($552,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $546k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Durango Education Foundation does
Mission
To provide financial support to the Durango School District 9-R for programs, materials and technology need that fall outside the capacity of the regular school district.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Durango Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that raises critical funding for the Durango School District through which it provides grants to teachers and schools, scholarships to graduating seniors, occasional fundraising campaigns for larger district needs, and service events for our entire educational community such as our fall and spring resource fairs and our Appreciation Celebration for all Durango School District Staff. Grants Program: During the 2024 calendar year, the Durango Education Foundation (DEF) regularly visited all 12 district schools to listen and gain relevant information about the needs and opportunities in each school and in the district as a whole. With that information, DEF held two grant competitions, one in spring 2024 and one in fall 2024. Teachers, schools, administrators, and community partners submitted grant applications and our grant committee awarded$130,000in grants throughout the district and to several DSD-serving community partners as well to support innovation and achievementin our local schools. Scholarship Program: During 2024, the Durango Education Foundation held a scholarship competition for graduating seniors in the Durango School…
$365,037 spentof which $249,429 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $365,037.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $1.1M (−31%).
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.
71% of Durango Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
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
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
Wendy Allsbrook Javier
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $79k → $109k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Durango Education Foundation’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
Durango Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 Durango Education Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 93% · 2019 87% · 2020 68% · 2021 85% · 2022 46% · 2023 61% — 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
50% of Durango Education Foundation'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
83% of Durango Education Foundation'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 $206k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $985k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Durango Education Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Durango Education Foundation
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Durango Education Foundation: 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 Durango Education Foundation?
- Durango Education Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,190,556 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ($552,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Durango Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,190,556 in grants to Durango Education Foundation, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Durango Education Foundation?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $552,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Durango Education Foundation 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 19 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