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elevateHER

elevateHER (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,839 to it, the largest being CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,666). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$304k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$344k
Net assets
$89k
12/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What elevateHER does

Mission

elevateHER's mission is to foster self-worth and grit in young women through mentoring, outdoor adventure, and holistic wellness programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, elevateHER provided year-round Positive Youth Development programming for young women living in rural central Colorado through a combination of outdoor adventure, mentorship, wellness education, leadership development, and community service. During the year, elevateHER served approximately 130 unique youth participants through multiple 10-week program sessions, mentorship opportunities, outdoor recreation experiences, wellness activities, and service-learning projects. Programming included hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, rafting, conservation projects, leadership workshops, and community-building activities. All transportation, equipment, meals, permits, and instruction were provided at no cost to participants, reducing barriers to participation for youth who may otherwise lack access to outdoor recreation and enrichment opportunities. In addition to measurable participation outcomes, elevateHER helped participants build confidence, resilience, leadership skills, healthy peer relationships, and stronger connections to caring adult mentors. Youth engaged in community service projects that fostered a sense of stewardship, responsibility, and belonging while…

    $151,092 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $151,092.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($9k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 331 ($48k) Expenses 360 ($33k) Net assets 382 ($21k)2019 Revenue 695 ($101k) Expenses 1092 ($99k) Net assets 425 ($23k)2020 Revenue 850 ($124k) Expenses 1263 ($114k) Net assets 597 ($33k)2021 Revenue 1354 ($197k) Expenses 2075 ($188k) Net assets 766 ($42k)2022 Revenue 1473 ($214k) Expenses 2112 ($191k) Net assets 1188 ($65k)2023 Revenue 1331 ($194k) Expenses 2321 ($210k) Net assets 1198 ($66k)2024 Revenue 2088 ($304k) Expenses 3104 ($281k) Net assets 1617 ($89k)
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Revenue (2088)Expenses (3104)Net assets (1617)Peer revenue range

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 $45k to $70k (+58%).

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$21k
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$35k
$45k
$70k
$71k
$96k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of elevateHER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$16k
’18
$2k
’19
$9k
’20
$9k
’21
$23k
’22
−$16k
’23
$23k
’24
4.1
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed987
Joined·+1+1
No longer listed·22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $54k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 elevateHER’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

elevateHER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

55% 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 elevateHER.

15%
largest funder
38%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 21% · 2022 34% · 2023 26% — 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

83% of elevateHER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

60% of elevateHER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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PA
NJ
RI
CA
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DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

elevateHER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)54% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like elevateHER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for elevateHER: 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 elevateHER?
elevateHER (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,839 to it, the largest being CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,666). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does elevateHER have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $343,839 in grants to elevateHER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of elevateHER?
CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like elevateHER 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.

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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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing