Colorado · Nonprofit
EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO
EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,534,045 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Rose Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Colorado Dental Service Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 89% · 2023 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $843k → $2.8M.
10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO’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
EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 39% · 2019 34% · 2020 36% · 2021 17% · 2022 45% · 2023 88% — 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
40% of EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rose Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCO · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 84 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Dental Service Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchCO · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Shares of Colorado Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchCO · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jared Polis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Humphreys Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- Rootedshared funderslocalCO · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you
- Caring for Denver Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · funds 203 organizations near you
- The Connie Burwell White and William W White Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you
- Brett Family Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Caring for Colorado Centennial Fundshared fundersCO · backs 73 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.
Organizations like EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: 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 EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO?
- EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,534,045 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $7,534,045 in grants to EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO 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 24funders 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