Colorado · Nonprofit
EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION
EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,517,294 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($988,614). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Emily Griffith Foundation does
Mission
We exist to provide educational and charitable funding for the support of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and programs of emily griffith technical college which cannot be funded by the financial resources of the college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Emily Griffith Foundation provides financial support through tuition scholarships, program support, and student success resources to expand access and opportunity for the 8,000-10,000 students who attend emily griffith technical college each year. Program support investments strengthen the college's ability to deliver high-quality career and technical education. These investments may include funding for instructor salaries, start-up costs for new programs or initiatives, and capital support for facilities, equipment, and other infrastructure that enhance the student learning environment. The foundation also administers the student essentials & emergencies fund, which provides flexible financial assistance to help students address essential non-tuition expenses that can impact their ability to stay enrolled and complete their training. Eligible students may apply for support to cover urgent or essential needs such as transportation, rent, childcare, healthcare, books, tools and supplies, or licensure and certification exam fees required for program completion.
$1,279,219 spentof which $1,015,106 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,279,219.
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 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $9.4M (−15%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 41% · 2023 14% · 2024 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Robin Chalecki
Executive director
Board chair
Scott Reich
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $269k → $609k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 67% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
51% of EMILY GRIFFITH 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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EMILY GRIFFITH 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 EMILY GRIFFITH 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 EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION?
- EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,517,294 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($988,614). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $4,517,294 in grants to EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $988,614 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMILY GRIFFITH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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