Colorado · Nonprofit
ELEVATE USA
ELEVATE USA (Colorado) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,649,909 to it, the largest being Stand Together Foundation ($1,751,153). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Elevate USA does
Mission
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Elevate USA is a national organization which launches, and supports a network of independent non-profit organizations (affiliates). Elevate affiliates are responsible for implementing the elevate mission and model in their city. Elevate USA trains and equips the affiliate's executives, program staff and board members and also provides program measurement and evaluation for the network. The elevate program serves over 12,000 students in 20 cities across the nation.
$1,971,129 spentof which $498,795 as grants$88,088 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,971,129.
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 $1.1M to $2.6M (+133%).
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 9% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ELEVATE USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kevin Byerley
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $371k → $2.0M.
18 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $536k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ELEVATE USA raised.
From the IRS filings of ELEVATE USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ELEVATE USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 ELEVATE USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 44% · 2019 70% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% — 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
48% of ELEVATE USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
ELEVATE USA draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
ELEVATE USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ELEVATE USA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$3.9M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$378k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ELEVATE USA
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 ELEVATE USA: 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 ELEVATE USA?
- ELEVATE USA (Colorado) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,649,909 to it, the largest being Stand Together Foundation ($1,751,153). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELEVATE USA have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $10,649,909 in grants to ELEVATE USA, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEVATE USA?
- Stand Together Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,751,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEVATE USA 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 45 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing