Colorado · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $422k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $267k
What Metropolitan State College of Denver Alumni Association Inc does
Mission
To cultivate relationships between alumni, students, and theuniversity community that result in direct volunteer engagement andphilanthropic support of our university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The msu denver alumni association is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporationestablished in 1971 with the original purpose of "creating and maintaining the spirit of fellowship and good will among all of thealumni of metro state college to encourage a better informed alumnibody to promote the subjects and programs of the alumni association asa medium for best serving the college in the community." since then, the association has refined its purpose, structure and governance to accomplish a single strategic purpose - to create broad and meaningful opportunities for alumni to engage with each other, the university and the larger denver community in ways that support the strategic goals of the university.the association has entered into a number of strategic partnerships that provide both benefits to the alumni as well as financial support to the university. Most notably, the association is partnered with farmers insurance - a relationship that provides discounted insurance policies to msu denver alumni while also generating roughly $10,000 annually to the university. Similarly, in 2018 the association entered into an agreement with the colorado rockies to be the non-profit partner to…
$352,100 spentof which $177,100 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $352,100.
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 2019 to 2020, from $259k to $19k (−93%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Brandi Rideout
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $88k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
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
METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: 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 METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
- METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
- Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC 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 1 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