Colorado · Nonprofit
EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,723 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($234,351). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Rootedlocalportfolio match
- The Thrift Shopshared funders
- Colorado League of Charter Schoolsportfolio 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.
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 28% · 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $37k → $21k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES’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
EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 86% · 2019 82% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
- Rootedlocalportfolio matchCO · funds 58 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Thrift Shopshared fundersCO · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Colorado League of Charter Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sturm Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University of Denverportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GenYOUTH Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Borgen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silicon Schools Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Colorado Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyraportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES?
- EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,723 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($234,351). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $247,723 in grants to EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES?
- COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $234,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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 3funders 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