Colorado · Nonprofit
OWEESTA CORPORATION
OWEESTA CORPORATION (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,505,857 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OWEESTA CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 276 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 276 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Greater Twin Cities United Wayshared funders
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporatedportfolio match
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 70% · 2018 54% · 2019 19% · 2020 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% · 2024 55% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of OWEESTA CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $370k → $2.4M.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 OWEESTA CORPORATION’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
OWEESTA CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 OWEESTA CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 95% · 2019 74% · 2020 51% · 2021 33% · 2022 18% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of OWEESTA CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
OWEESTA CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Greater Twin Cities United Wayshared fundersMN · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ndn Collective Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Peoples Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Nations Development Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pritschet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LP Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vadon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Managementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bush Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Fr Bigelow Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding OWEESTA CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $224.5M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$156.1M
- Department of Agriculture$48.3M
- Department of the Treasury$13.8M
- Small Business Administration$5.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$661k
- Department of Health and Human Services$592k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OWEESTA CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OWEESTA CORPORATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OWEESTA CORPORATION?
- OWEESTA CORPORATION (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,505,857 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OWEESTA CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $28,505,857 in grants to OWEESTA CORPORATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OWEESTA CORPORATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OWEESTA CORPORATION 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 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing