Colorado · Nonprofit
PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET
PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($39,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $-36780
What Pikes Peak Bulletin Nonprofit News Outlet does
Mission
Our goal is to report the news of our communities accurately and fairly, and to foster the free flow of information and opinion. It is our mission to create a sustainable, community-powered, local news source on issues that impact Manitou Springs, Old Colorado City and Ute Pass without undo influence of a profit-motive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PIKES PEAK BULLETIN: Publish & Print a hyper-local non-profit weekly newspaper, with 3,000 - 5,000 copies both mailed to subscribers and available at 150 local merchants and businesses for free pick-up, covering 3 distinct communities with news they need from their particular neighborhoods and communities.
$245,894 spent$241,124 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,894.
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.
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 $11k to $25k (+136%).
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: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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
G Lyn Ettinger-Harwell
CEO and Publisher
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET’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
PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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 PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET.
“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
71% of PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k 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.
Against its field
PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET: 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 PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET?
- PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($39,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,000 in grants to PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET?
- PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIKES PEAK BULLETIN NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLET 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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