Colorado · Nonprofit
Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)
Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,146,320 to it, the largest being PIVOTAL PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) does
Mission
As the business community's nonpartisan voice for early childhood, epic leads efforts to build infrastructure and advance policies that support the workforce of today while developing the workforce of tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family friendly business practices: epic leads a strong coalition of state and local partners to understand and promote family-friendly workplaces. Participating in epic family-friendly initiatives supports the development of happier, healthier employees who are more dedicated, loyal and productive. Epic family-friendly initiatives are supported by an employer workplace tool-kit and includes needs assessment, feasibility, and project implementation services that enable employers to implement workplace policies and benefits that support working parents.
$1,838,855 spent$487,779 earned by the program94% of program spendingBuilding up: epic has developed the building up initiative to support a critical child care infrastructure need in colorado. Building up will enhance the capacity of epic to support the generation of ideas, prototyping solutions, and project management for child care infrastructure projects in addition to advocacy support for state and local efforts. Epic will support projects from the concept stage through the point when the child care business is ready to operate with data-informed decisions. Building up will increase affordability & availability of quality child care for families of colorado. Improve sustainability for child care owners to maintain business facility/home. Improve business support for current and future child care business owners. Increase compensation for the early childhood educator workforce.
$122,252 spent$39,000 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,961,107.
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 2023 to 2024, from $447k to $2.2M (+383%).
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 4% · 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)’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. 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
Nicole Riehl
President & CEO
Board chair
Ryan Beiser
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $64k → $233k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $332k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mile High United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) raised.
From the IRS filings of Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)’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
Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 68% · 2019 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 36% · 2022 66% · 2023 39% — 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
11% of Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k 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
Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
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 Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC): 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 Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)?
- Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,146,320 to it, the largest being PIVOTAL PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,146,320 in grants to Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC), 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC)?
- PIVOTAL PHILANTHROPIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) 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 24 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