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HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC

HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,976 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($90,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$230k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$205k
Net assets
$365k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Highlands Ranch Rotary Foundation Inc does

Mission

Support local national and international charitable organizations

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Support of local national and international organizations

    $219,672 spent$213,685 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $219,672.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($76k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($209k)2018 Revenue 145 ($110k) Expenses 266 ($159k) Net assets 93 ($196k)2019 Revenue 132 ($100k) Expenses 165 ($99k) Net assets 92 ($193k)2020 Revenue 142 ($107k) Expenses 147 ($88k) Net assets 104 ($218k)2021 Revenue 181 ($137k) Expenses 180 ($108k) Net assets 134 ($280k)2022 Revenue 190 ($144k) Expenses 196 ($118k) Net assets 124 ($260k)2023 Revenue 215 ($163k) Expenses 226 ($136k) Net assets 143 ($299k)2024 Revenue 806 ($610k) Expenses 1101 ($660k) Net assets 130 ($272k)2025 Revenue 276 ($209k) Expenses 294 ($176k) Net assets 148 ($310k)2026 Revenue 305 ($230k) Expenses 373 ($224k) Net assets 174 ($365k)
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Revenue (305)Expenses (373)Net assets (174)

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 $587k to $274k (−53%).

$209k
$219k
$224k
$273k
$329k
$375k
$587k
$274k
$340k
$412k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
−$50k
’18
$1k
’19
$20k
’20
$30k
’21
$27k
’22
$27k
’23
−$50k
’24
$33k
’25
$7k
’26
2.9
months of
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

G Ron Lester

Chairman

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed777777778
Joined·+3+2·+4+2+1+3+5
No longer listed·32·42134
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $47k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC’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

HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC.

44%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 78% · 2023 86% — 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

77% of HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.

IA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC?
HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,976 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($90,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $204,976 in grants to HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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