Colorado · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE
NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,309,301 to it, the largest being ROOTED ($1,229,301). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $150
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Northeast Denver Innovation Zone does
Mission
To empower educators, students, and the northeast denver community through leadership, excellent education, and flexible, school-based decision- making.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, ndiz contined to support four schools in the denver public schools. Ndiz used resources to facilitate two principal selections and hired three quality leaders of color. Ndiz leaders utilized ndiz resources and an equity consultant to create equity tennents designed to guide equitable decision making in hiring, budgeting, and curriculum. Three of our four schools had school-based innovation plans approved. Schools utilized national literacy experts to improve curriculum to meet student needs. 70%+ of our funding was dedicated to school planning expenses. Students in all four of our schools outperformed their peers outside of the zone on state exams.
$435,992 spentof which $147,400 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $435,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $428k to $0 (−100%).
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 23% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 98% · 2023 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Anne Rowe
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $514k → $175k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE’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
NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 97% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
97% of NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE: 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 NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE?
- NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,309,301 to it, the largest being ROOTED ($1,229,301). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,309,301 in grants to NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE?
- ROOTED is the largest funder on record, with $1,229,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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