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MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC

MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $87,500 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ($87,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$753k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$88k
Net assets
$64k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Momentum Strategy and Research Inc does

Mission

Msr's mission is to bring to light the best available data and infor- -mation to impact k-12 public education policy and practice

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintaining the most up-to-date databases of school information and outcome data relevant to our partner schools and organizations. Maintaining an up-to-date policy databases on statewide accountability systems and structures. Collaborating with assessmenet vendors and area experts to conduct research and analysis informing policy makers in gaps, trends, and needed adjustment. Working with schools to understand their needs and priorities and help us set our annual research agenda.

    $499,029 spent$670,867 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $499,029.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($675k) Expenses 100 ($658k) Net assets -117 ($-74734)2025 Revenue 111 ($753k) Expenses 105 ($692k) Net assets 100 ($64k)
20242025
Revenue (111)Expenses (105)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $18k to $140k (+667%).

$18k
$140k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’24
$61k
’25
2.4
months of
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

James Griffin

Pres and CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed22
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH 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 MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC

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In Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH 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 MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC?
MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $87,500 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ($87,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $87,500 in grants to MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC.
Who is the largest funder of MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH INC?
THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $87,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOMENTUM STRATEGY AND RESEARCH 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.

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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 2024–2025), 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