Colorado · Nonprofit
GRAND BEGINNINGS
GRAND BEGINNINGS (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,405,035 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($565,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $737k
What Grand Beginnings does
Mission
Grand Beginnings mission is to leverage partnerships and resources to ensure quality and accessible early childhood services exist to support child development,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Comprehensive early childhood services: convening partners to develop strategic investments in early childhood based on community input to improve the quality, access and equality of services and supports available to families with young children within grand county.
$466,206 spentof which $101,092 as grants$340 earned by the program78% of program spendingMental health: promoting social emotional competence in children birth to 5 years by training and coaching early childhood teachers and parents on the pyramid plus approach, promoting incredible years curriculum and engaging community stakeholders to identifiy and develop mental health support for children with persistent challenging behaviours and their families.
$74,302 spent12% of program spendingHealth: increasing access to preventive oral and medical health care by linking health care early childhood sectors and providing universal training and technical assistance on standardized child development and oral health screening tools across grand county to promote early intervention including referral and follow-up services.
$58,863 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $599,371.
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 2018 to 2019, from $266k to $483k (+82%).
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: 2017 31% · 2018 35% · 2019 22% · 2020 27% · 2021 48% · 2022 39% · 2023 50% · 2024 48% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GRAND BEGINNINGS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kathryn Hale
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $148k → $187k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GRAND BEGINNINGS’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
GRAND BEGINNINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 GRAND BEGINNINGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 50% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 79% · 2023 69% — 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
27% of GRAND BEGINNINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
99% of GRAND BEGINNINGS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k 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
GRAND BEGINNINGS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GRAND BEGINNINGS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 GRAND BEGINNINGS: 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 GRAND BEGINNINGS?
- GRAND BEGINNINGS (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,405,035 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($565,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND BEGINNINGS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,405,035 in grants to GRAND BEGINNINGS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND BEGINNINGS?
- TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $565,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND BEGINNINGS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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