Colorado · Nonprofit
Friends of Gya
Friends of Gya (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,030 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Friends of Gya does
Mission
To provide funding for swim programs in Grenada West Indies
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free Saturday Swim Lessons throughout Grenada at 12 different sites. The lessons run for an hour each and many sites go for two hours. We teach approximately 250 children and adults each Saturday. In the course of a year we teach about 600 children.
$40,000 spentof which $40,000 as grants73% of program spendingTwo National Learn to Swim Weeks each year are held for 5 days in a row when the children are out of school. Participants come for an hour lesson each day at 18 different sites. In 2024 we taught 1,250 swimmers at our National Learn to Swim Weeks.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants18% of program spendingSwim Instructor Development Programs. We run numerous programs to train our swim instructors. We have about 100 instructors teaching across Grenada. We bring instructors from the Lifesaving Society of Canada to help us and we run our own six month local Swim Instructor Certified Level II programs.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $55k to $40k (−28%).
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.
100% of Friends of Gya’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Friends of Gya’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
Friends of Gya leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
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 Friends of Gya.
“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
86% of Friends of Gya'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Friends of Gya's revenue fell 32% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Gya
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Gya: 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 Friends of Gya?
- Friends of Gya (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,030 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of Gya have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,030 in grants to Friends of Gya.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Gya?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Gya 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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