Colorado · Nonprofit
MANUFACTURER'S EDGE
MANUFACTURER'S EDGE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,360 to it, the largest being Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc ($99,360). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $124k
- Net assets
- $-658657
What Manufacturer's Edge does
Mission
Manufacturer's Edge is a state-wide manufacturing assistance center dedicated to helping boost the competitiveness of colorado's manufacturers, and to support colorado's economic development in a collaborative forum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On-site training and workshops - education in developing strong and successful methods used in manufacturing.
$1,555,010 spent$939,181 earned by the program69% of program spendingTechnology information transfer - through collaboration, research and training, manfacturer's edge will partner with colorado universities and national laboratories to improve tech transfer.
$345,732 spent15% of program spendingWeb-based resource link - provide information to coloradoans designed to help identify new technology and methods aimed at increasing economic development opportunities in the state of colorado.
$345,732 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,246,474.
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 2018 to 2019, from $686k to $1.4M (+109%).
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: 2017 74% · 2018 59% · 2019 45% · 2020 54% · 2021 75% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% · 2024 72% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of MANUFACTURER'S EDGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Glenn Plagens
CEO
Board chair
Shelli Brunswick
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MANUFACTURER'S EDGE’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
MANUFACTURER'S EDGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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 MANUFACTURER'S EDGE.
“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
MANUFACTURER'S EDGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MANUFACTURER'S EDGE receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $124k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MANUFACTURER'S EDGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.3M on record — $20.3M federal, $26k state.
- Department of Commerce$20.3M
- DE$14k
- VT$8k
- NJ$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MANUFACTURER'S EDGE
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 MANUFACTURER'S EDGE: 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 MANUFACTURER'S EDGE?
- MANUFACTURER'S EDGE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,360 to it, the largest being Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc ($99,360). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANUFACTURER'S EDGE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $124,360 in grants to MANUFACTURER'S EDGE.
- Who is the largest funder of MANUFACTURER'S EDGE?
- Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc is the largest funder on record, with $99,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANUFACTURER'S EDGE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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