Colorado · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE
FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($82,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $296k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Foundation for Colorado Springs Future does
Mission
To maintain and diversify the economy of the greater colorado springs, colorado area
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Innovate colorado springs - funding of the festival of innovation and imagination to attract and retain young, skilled workers.economic research - economic research to create metrics to organize data collection to better understand community progress towards goals.rising professionals - funding to create a separate organization from the chamber of commerce to recognize and celebrate young successful professionals in the community.
$1,427,761 spentof which $1,208,633 as grants$1,888,760 earned by the program90% of program spendingOther ancilliary program sevices reimbursed
$157,546 spent$158,546 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,585,307.
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 2022 to 2023, from $456k to $4.4M (+858%).
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: 2022 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Trinity Bradley Anderson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $273k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pikes Peak Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE’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
FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE.
“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
82% of FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k 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
FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Greater Colorado Springs Chamber and Edc · exempt
- Center for Regional Advancement · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE: 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 FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE?
- FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($82,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $295,500 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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