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JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST

JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,486 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($31,236). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$71k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Jefferson County Students First does

Mission

Educational advocacy in jefferson county colorado.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. $10000 was paid in scholarships to jeffco graduating seniors.

    $10,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,000.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2023 Revenue 643 ($90k) Expenses 571 ($34k) Net assets 718 ($71k)2024 Revenue 822 ($115k) Expenses 1728 ($102k) Net assets 861 ($85k)2025 Revenue 505 ($71k) Expenses 1395 ($82k) Net assets 726 ($71k)
2017202320242025
Revenue (505)Expenses (1395)Net assets (726)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $71k to $85k (+20%).

$10k
$71k
$85k
$71k
2017202320242025
Total assets

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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$56k
’23
$13k
’24
−$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $12k.

Funder
'17
'23
'25*
'26*
total
$5k
funders
1
1
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST’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

JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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

100% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST.

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

89% of JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST?
JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,486 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($31,236). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,486 in grants to JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEFFERSON COUNTY STUDENTS FIRST 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 3 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