Colorado · Nonprofit
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,647 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($154,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $880k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lake County Community Fund does
Mission
The Lake County Community Fund (lccf) is a nonprofit created to bring additional resources into lake county to support the community, including local non-profit organizations. The vision of the lccf is for lake county to have an abundance of sustainable philanthropic resources to support a thriving community. Its mission is to provide a means to expand the capacity of local organizations, promote and facilitate giving opportunities and inspire investment in lake county. The lccf will encourage donations by individuals, businesses, and foundations, and invite charities in leadville and twin lakes to apply for grant funding to further their missions. The lccf will (I) capture philanthropic dollars of people and organizations who love leadville; (ii) support existing non-profits and worthy causes in lake county; and (iii) make grants and provide capacity- building services to existing lake county non-profits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal sponsorship and capacity-building efforts. This lccf program area includes all the components of acquiring and housing fiscal sponsored funds, as well as serving as a local convener when appropriate and offering trainings and technical assistance to local nonprofit and charitable groups. This also includes putting on events in support of fiscal sponsored funds and/or events related to local capacity-building. In the prior year, the lccf housed seven fiscal sponsored funds (we love leadville tribute, pumpkin patch, tree of sharing, lions club safeway cards, lideres latinos leadville, and lake county open space initiative.
$598,809 spentof which $9,500 as grants67% of program spendingCommunity grantmaking. On an annual basis, the lccf offers a competitive community grants round, which includes advertising the grant-making opportunity, holding information sessions, receiving grant proposals, conducting technical review of proposals, and facilitating grant award determinations by the lccf board of directors. In the prior year, the lccf granted out 81,294 to 12 local charitable groups as part of its community grants round.
$34,688 spentof which $28,314 as grants4% of program spendingDevelopment of the lccf into a community asset, including networking and promotional activities designed to build relationships with potential contributors and major investors in the leadville/lake county community.
$259,794 spentof which $85,618 as grants29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $893,291.
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 $1.0M to $1.4M (+44%).
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: 2019 24% · 2020 7% · 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 36% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND’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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $73k → $94k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND’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
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 63% · 2022 38% · 2023 40% — 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
33% of LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
64% of LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND'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 $318k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $561k 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.
Against its field
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND: 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 LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND?
- LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,647 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($154,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $879,647 in grants to LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $154,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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