Colorado · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,705,630 to it, the largest being Brees Dream Foundation ($2,492,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Schlessman Foundation Incshared funders
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio match
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $525k → $658k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE’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 EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 49% · 2021 55% · 2022 97% · 2023 86% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Schlessman Foundation Incshared fundersCO · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edu21c Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chiefs for Changeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Excellent Schools New Mexicoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caring for Denver Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 220 organizations near you
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nafportfolio 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 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: 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 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE?
- FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,705,630 to it, the largest being Brees Dream Foundation ($2,492,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,705,630 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE?
- Brees Dream Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,492,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 15funders 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