Colorado · Nonprofit
Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence
Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,500 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $531k
- Net assets
- $366k
What Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence does
Mission
To provide community based licensing that focuses on providing licensing services that are culturally responsive using competence caring and compassionate services while insuring compliance. IREE also provides early childhood mental health support for licensed child care provider
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The child care licensing program monitored an estimated 3,700 child care facilities during this period. The facilities are in three counties, Arapahoe, El Paso and Pueblo counties in Colorado. The visits included original licenses, surpervisory visite, responses to complaints and investigations of child injuries. Additionally, monthly meetings with child care providers were conducted each month in each county for a total of 33 monthly meetings.
$1,287,607 spent$1,473,605 earned by the program65% of program spendingProfessional Development - paterning with eary childhood agencies, institutions and governments and universities to provide training for early childhood workforce.
$517,694 spent$442,655 earned by the program26% of program spendingHealth and Well being Division provided early childhood mental healtrh services at the program at both the child and family levels. It also provided one-on-one and group thearpy for providers.
$114,226 spent$195,826 earned by the program6% of program spendingSocial Justice
$57,321 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,976,848.
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.
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 $567k to $373k (−34%).
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 0% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Rosemarie Allen
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $253k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence’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
Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 78% · 2023 79% — 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
Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence: 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 Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence?
- Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,500 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $530,500 in grants to Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute For Racial Equity And Excellence 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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