Colorado · Nonprofit
HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES
HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,914 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($964,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Hers-Higher Education Resource Services does
Mission
Hers is dedicated to creating and sustaining a diverse community of leaders through leadership development programs and other strategies, with a commitment to achieving equity, inclusivity and excellence in higher education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hers (higher education resource services) is a leadership development and research organization dedicated to creating and sustaining a diverse network of leaders in higher education. Hers programs are open to all genders who support this mission, hers historically focused on offering programs for women leaders in higher education. Currently,our programs span the career life cycle for all leaders, from all institution types, and all backgrounds. Hers is unique in that we prioritize equity in leadership as a way of creating equitable opportunities to thrive for all college and university campus constituents. Continued on schedule o.founded in 1972, hers proudly serves as a network for higher education leaders and is building a repository of data and resources for leaders who seek to advance their careers,and their leadership practice in higher education.
$1,782,403 spent$1,753,228 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,782,403.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $3.8M (+33%).
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 11% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Kimberly Kvaal
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $396.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES’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
HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $275 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $275
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES
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
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 HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES: 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 HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES?
- HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,914 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($964,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,052,914 in grants to HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $964,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HERS-HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE SERVICES 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 7 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