Colorado · Nonprofit
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,515,633 to it, the largest being PLEASANT T ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC ($4,451,011). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $96M
What Fountain Valley School of Colorado does
Mission
Fountain Valley School of Colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity, self-reliance, and open-mindedness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fountain valley school is a coeducational boarding and day school for approximately 215 students, grades 9 - 12. Our diverse student body hails from 20 states and 20 countries and is integral to our educational experience. The fountain valley school program is rigorous, engaging, and global in perspective while intentionally taking advantage of our unique place in the front range of the american west. Fountain valley school's signature programs include our unique 9th-grade western curriculum, the global/stem scholar diploma, membership in round square, interim expeditions, and an athletic program featuring western-themed activities and sports such as english and western equestrian teams, mountain biking, climbing, and outdoor education that take advantage of our place on a 1,100-acre prairie campus set in the shadow of pikes peak and the rocky mountains. We aim to create future leaders who think critically and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity, self-reliance, and open-mindedness.scholarships: 46% of students receive financial aid. In the 2024-2025 academic year, $2,998,109 in both merit and need-based scholarships were awarded.
$14,803,402 spentof which $2,998,109 as grants$13,945,044 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,803,402.
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 2017 to 2018, from $73M to $87M (+19%).
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: 2021 4% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 28 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $906k.
19 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 66% · 2023 53% — 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
38% of FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO?
- FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,515,633 to it, the largest being PLEASANT T ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC ($4,451,011). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $11,515,633 in grants to FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO?
- PLEASANT T ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,451,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF 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.
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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 62 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