Colorado · Nonprofit
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES (Colorado) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,095,634 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($1,470,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures does
Mission
See schedule ostrengthen legislatures, counteract distrust and cynicism of the legislative process, and help legislators and legislative staff confront and solve critical public policy issues through public-private dialog.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide state legislators with technical assistance and research.
$2,061,169 spentof which $740,700 as grants25% of program spendingSupport ncsl operations including technology, recruiting, evaluation, and internship program.
$1,864,500 spentof which $716,000 as grants23% of program spendingLegislative training projects, providing new and returning legislators with a variety of professional development materials in support of capacity building in state legislatures.
$1,799,500 spentof which $1,737,000 as grants22% of program spendingSupport programs including the center for ethics in government, center for legislative strengthening, fiscal affairs, legislative staff services and the state tribal institute.
$994,800 spentof which $716,300 as grants12% of program spendingProvide state legislators with technical assistance and research by providing legislative publications and marketing materials.
$536,446 spent7% of program spendingCommunications projects, technologies and information to promote the exchange of ideas among legislators and staff.
$485,000 spentof which $510,000 as grants6% of program spendingTask forces on agriculture; artificial intelligance, cybersecurity and privacy; energy supply; health innovations; higher education; military and veterans affairs; state and local taxation.
$355,000 spentof which $355,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,096,415.
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 2021 to 2022, from $648k to $2.2M (+241%).
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.
100% of NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Timothy Storey
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $639k → $922k.
6 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
76% 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 NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 41% · 2019 38% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 58% · 2023 27% — 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
37% of NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES has grown faster than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES
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
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Conference of State Legislatures · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: 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 NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES?
- NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES (Colorado) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,095,634 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($1,470,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $7,095,634 in grants to NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES?
- ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $1,470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES 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 72 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