Colorado · Nonprofit
LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS
LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,487 to it, the largest being WASSERMAN FOUNDATION ($250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $533k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $676k
What Life Skills Fore the Youth of Colorado Springs does
Mission
Impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
First tee of southern colorado (formerly known as Life Skills Fore the Youth of Colorado Springs) conducts year-round educational programming that builds character, instills life-enhancing values and promotes healthy choices through the game of golf. The program operates through affiliate relationships in the warmer months (may-sept); in the colder months, an indoor facility is used. The programs integrate golf instruction (golf etiquette, swing mechanics, rules of play) with the presentation of core values (e.g. Honesty, integrity, responsibility, sportsmanship) that participants can use on the golf course, but also in school, work, and family life. Programs are offered approximately 35 hours per week. Participants range in age from 3-18.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2023 to 2024, from $748k to $1.1M (+43%).
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 9% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $51k → $374k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 56% · 2019 51% · 2020 69% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — 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
67% of LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
52% of LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS: 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 LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS?
- LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,487 to it, the largest being WASSERMAN FOUNDATION ($250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,526,487 in grants to LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS?
- WASSERMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 22 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