Colorado · Nonprofit
GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS
GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS (Colorado) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,271,804 to it, the largest being TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC ($1,550,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Greenhouse Scholars does
Mission
Sustainable, generational change in under-resourced communities has proven difficult to achieve. Greenhouse is changing that paradigm by working from within partnering with the most inspiring young leaders and surrounding them with a powerful, lifelong community. Together, were launching and scaling bold initiatives that are transforming communities across our country and the world. We are a movement of changemakers, transforming the cycle of opportunity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Whole person college program: the organization's whole person college program serves scholars for five years during and immediately after college. This immersive program provides high-performing students from low-income backgrounds with success resources that enable them to live lives of their choosing and enact long-term, positive change in under- resourced communities.
$1,529,609 spentof which $470,281 as grants64% of program spendingYoung leaders program: the organization's post-college young leaders program provides comprehensive support to greenhouse alumni in the early stages of their career and post-college life through learning, relationships, and entrepreneurship.
$363,947 spentof which $50,973 as grants15% of program spendingSustaining program: the organization's sustaining program supports our alums as they move into their 30s and 40s. The greenhouse community will work together to implement ideas that deepen and broaden our impact by maximizing individual potential and idea potential on an ongoing basis.
$30,925 spent1% of program spendingMentorship. Established professionals and industry leaders are paired with scholars, connecting with them for at least two hours every month to lend insight on personal and professional development and connect the scholars with broader professional opportunities. Professional networking. Professionals from the organization's community engage in one-time conversations with scholars regarding professional opportunities and advice. Internships. The organization helps scholars secure and maximize high-value internship opportunities through connections and coaching. Skills modules. Scholars are granted access to an online curriculum teaching critical life and financial skills not covered in courses. New modules are created and uploaded by the organization. Summer symposium. A four-day leadership training seminar in boulder, co where the organization brings in all scholars to meet with one another, hear from and connect with inspiring industry leaders, and learn new tools to navigate their personal and professional development. Financial support. There are two avenues for scholars to receive financial support: 1) flex funding: scholars submit proposals to pursue grants they can put…
$482,391 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,406,872.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $2.3M (+115%).
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 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
106% of GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Peter M Burridge
Pres. & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $308k → $1.9M.
29 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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
GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
56% 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 GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 34% · 2021 54% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% — 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
53% of GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
58% of GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: 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 GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS?
- GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS (Colorado) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,271,804 to it, the largest being TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC ($1,550,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $11,271,804 in grants to GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS?
- TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 108 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing