Colorado · Nonprofit
Friends of the Children - Colorado
Friends of the Children - Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,248 to it, the largest being Colorado Springs Health Foundation ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of the Children - Colorado's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,185 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001shared funderslocalportfolio match
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Denver Children's Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
99% of Friends of the Children - Colorado’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $231k → $316k.
9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the Children). These are real filings, and they are not money Friends of the Children - Colorado raised.
From the IRS filings of Friends of the Children - Colorado’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 19 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
Friends of the Children - Colorado leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 the Children - Colorado.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 43% · 2023 40% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Friends of the Children - Colorado's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001shared funderslocalportfolio matchIL · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Denver Children's Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Nutrition Camp School Foundaton Inclocalportfolio matchCO · funds 26 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gazette Charitiesshared funderslocalCO · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Broncos Alumni Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Broncos Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ajl Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peakshared funderslocalCO · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
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 Friends of the Children - Colorado
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Children - 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.
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 Friends of the Children - Colorado?
- Friends of the Children - Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,248 to it, the largest being Colorado Springs Health Foundation ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Children - Colorado have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $807,248 in grants to Friends of the Children - Colorado, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Children - Colorado?
- Colorado Springs Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Children - 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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