Colorado · Nonprofit
FASTER Colorado
FASTER Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,958 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($5,958). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $226k
What FASTER Colorado does
Mission
The purpose of this tax-exempt organization is to provide training at low-cost to school employees who have approval from their School Board and to church security teams. Most of these schools and churches are in rural areas are in their early years of their security programs and are underserved by advanced training organizations in their areas. The funding for all activities is covered by donations from individuals corporations and foundations we are funded by tuition paid by individuals attending training. All donations and tuition goes toward the non-profits activities. All activities of the non-profit further the purpose of this educational organization by provide safety training and emergency response training to school security teams and church security teams. We also conduct research and analysis to provide the most up to date information on school safety to schools churches and community groups. Our mission is to keep children safe while theyre at school
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025 we Trained 87 school and church security team members in emergency response. The training is provided by active-duty Law Enforcement instructors and medical emergency response instructors. The training consists of the following:Mindset training that prepares attendees to take charge in a threat situation.Medical training that focuses on providing medical aid in an emergency. Provided by medical emergency response instructors.Firearms Training that is provided by active-duty Law Enforcement instructors all of whom are POST Police Officer Standards and Training Full Skills certified. Simulator and scenario training that put students in live threat situations. The training is provided by active-duty Law Enforcement instructors all of whom are POST Full Skills certified. Safety planning to help schools and churches develop and document their security plan policies and procedures.The training is conducted at Law Enforcement Training Facilities by certified trainers.
$64,169 spent$87,277 earned by the program67% of program spendingFASTER Colorado Outreach. In 2025 we conducted outreach educational efforts is provided by board members of the non-profit. The outreach education consists of the following:Attend school board meeting to educate board members on school safety.Speaking to church groups.Attend community meetings to educate communities on school safety.Provide education to schools and churches on how to setup policies and procedures.This educational outreach meeting may be at schools or other public venues.Public outreach and education are provided to school administrators and boards parents groups and other parties interested in school and church safety.10
$23,410 spent24% of program spendingFASTER Colorado research and analysis. We worked with 5 schools to help them develop school safety implementation strategies that include: policies and procedures candidate vetting process and approach to gaining community support.
$8,100 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $95,679.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $64k to $226k (+256%).
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: 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of FASTER Colorado’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Laura Carno
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FASTER Colorado’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FASTER Colorado'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FASTER Colorado runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FASTER Colorado
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FASTER Colorado: 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 FASTER Colorado?
- FASTER Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,958 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($5,958). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FASTER Colorado have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,958 in grants to FASTER Colorado.
- Who is the largest funder of FASTER Colorado?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,958 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FASTER Colorado 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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