Colorado · Nonprofit
INVEST IN KIDS
INVEST IN KIDS (Colorado) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,632,061 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,040,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Invest in Kids does
Mission
Invest in Kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The incredible years (iy) encompasses three evidence-based prevention programs; teacher classroom management, dinosaur school, and preschool basic parent program. These programs promote social-emotional learning, academic skills, and positive behavioral outcomes for young children in partnership with their teachers and parents/caregivers. Iy serves children and their families in 18 counties in colorado. During the 2024-2025 program year, the incredible years served 5,313 children and 312 parents and caregivers. --------------------- more detail on schedule o -------------------
$1,315,777 spentof which $99,216 as grants$263,270 earned by the program36% of program spendingNurse-family partnership (nfp) is an evidence-based, nursing program for families affected by economic inequality who are expecting their first child. Clients are partnered with a registered nurse early in their pregnancy and receive home visits until their child turns two. The nurse partners with families so they can build the confidence and the tools they need to assure a healthy start for their babies and set a vision and goals for the life they want for themselves and their families. Nfp serves children and their families in all 64 counties in colorado. During the 2024-2025 program year, nurse-family partnership served 3,618 children and 4,209 parents and caregivers. --------------------- more detail on schedule o ---------------------
$926,677 spent26% of program spendingChild first (cf) works with young children and their families in a two- generational model. This program provides intensive, home-based mental health services to help build stronger bonds between caregivers and children to help them heal from trauma. Each family works alongside a mental health clinician and family support partner to uncover sources of stress and identify the best resources for the families. Cf serves children and their families in 24 counties in colorado. During the 2024-2025 program year, child first served 209 children and 235 parents and caregivers. --------------------- more detail on schedule o ---------------------
$1,251,480 spentof which $499,010 as grants35% of program spendingFinding opportunities in recruitment and retention for our colorado experts (forrce): Invest in Kids has made significant progress on its forrce initiative, leading over 30 strategic activities to enhance statewide collaboration, policy engagement and workforce pipeline solutions for our evidence-based workforce. These efforts directly support statewide opportunities to advance colorado's workforce and promote employment for childfirst and nurse-family partnership programs. Key highlights: - strategic partnerships: iik engaged with over 10 community partners to explore workforce funding models, higher education pathways, and statewide opportunities to advance colorado's evidence-based workforce. - systems-level field engagement: supported the home visit investment task force in exploring apprenticeship opportunities for home visitors and contributed to the elevating and strengthening colorado's infant and early childhood mental health ecosystem: strategic plan 2025-2030.
$121,662 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,615,596.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $3.3M (+58%).
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: 2018 25% · 2019 41% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 50% · 2023 53% · 2024 63% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of INVEST IN KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Eric Hilty Jd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $815k → $1.4M.
14 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 INVEST IN KIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
INVEST IN KIDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% 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
41% 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 INVEST IN KIDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 14% · 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 29% · 2022 15% · 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
56% of INVEST IN KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
75% of INVEST IN KIDS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
INVEST IN KIDS's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INVEST IN KIDS
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS?
- INVEST IN KIDS (Colorado) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,632,061 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,040,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INVEST IN KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $10,632,061 in grants to INVEST IN KIDS, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVEST IN KIDS?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,040,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVEST IN KIDS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 79 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