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NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION

NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$3.5M
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Norris Penrose Legacy Foundation does

Mission

To acquire and continue the operation, maintenance, and capital improvements of norris penrose event center (npec), so as to continue the lessening of the burden of any local government to financially support the community events held at npec.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of the corporation is to acquire and continue the operation, maintenance, and capital improvements of npec, so as to continue the lessening of the burden of any local government to financially support the community events held at npec. These events not only include the rodeos, but also include the holding of conventions, community fairs and expos, motocross events, concerts, charitable fundraising events, including charitable galas, and other community events. In addition, npec serves as an equestrian riding and boarding facility, which includes the operation of a non-profit therapeutic riding center that serves the pikes peak community.

    $480,214 spentof which $106,000 as grants$1,396,169 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $480,214.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2024 Revenue 7892 ($7.9M) Expenses 6411 ($5.3M) Net assets 11953 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 1803 ($1.8M) Expenses 2128 ($1.8M) Net assets 15648 ($3.5M)
202320242025
Revenue (1803)Expenses (2128)Net assets (15648)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 2023 to 2024, from $94k to $7.4M (+7716%).

$94k
$7.4M
$7.1M
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

8% of NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’23
$2.6M
’24
$50k
’25
7.2
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.

20242025
Listed1818
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION’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

NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION.

34%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

57% of NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)325% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

27% of spending goes to programs.

Program 27%Management 73%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Norris Penrose Equestrian Center LLC · disregarded
  • Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION?
NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,200 in grants to NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORRIS PENROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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